What Works in 2024

The Center for Innovative Pedagogy's 2024 conference includes a wide range of presentations, panels and workshops focused in three general areas:

• approaches designed to benefit emerging student populations
• creative and responsible uses of new educational technologies
• recently discovered challenges and attempts to address them

This year’s keynote speaker will be Bryan Alexander, futurist, educator and author of "America Next: The Futures of Higher Education."

Presenters at the conference this year represent seven different colleges from around the world, and registration is open to participants from all institutions.

Registration is now open for this free, online event: 

Register now

Conference Schedule

Thursday, May 30

9 - 10 a.m.

• Panel on Collaborative Learning and Student Interactivity with Anastasia Logotheti, Maria Avgerinou, Irene Karayianni, George Kyparissiadis, Katerina Nikolopoulou, Eugenia Tzoumaka and Athina Zotou from the American College of Greece

10:05 - 10:45 a.m.

• Assessing the Effectiveness of Role-play in the History of Psychology with Mary Canellopoulou and Eleni Konsolaki from the American College of Greece
• Videographic Criticism as means of Creative Learning with Marina Ivaniceva from Effat University

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

• Maximizing the Impact of Student Learning through Skill Development with Erin E. Cook from Gardner-Webb University
• Cultivating Community and Professional Skills in Religious Studies: A Case of "Religious Studies Connections" with Chan Sok Park and Jeremy Rapport from the College of Wooster
• Doing Our Best Work As A Form Of Radical Self-Care: Embodied, Neurodiversity-Positive Productivity Practices for Students, Staff and Faculty with Megan Pow Sheldon from Champlain College

Friday, May 31

9 - 10 a.m.

• Culture EXPedition: EXPlicit Culture Teaching for EXPloring, EXPlaining and EXPeriencing Diversity with Sophia Zevgoli from the American College of Greece
• Enhancing Undergraduate Student Presentation Skills: Effective Strategies in Teaching Delivery with Gina Kostoulias from the American College of Greece
• Getting Students to Do the Assigned Reading using Perusall: A Progress Report with Tara Keenan from John Cabot University

10:05 - 11:05 a.m.

• Alternate Forms of Notetaking Interventions with Ioanna Spentza, Dimitris Bakodimos and Chrysanthi Nega from the American College of Greece
• Promoting First Year Success at the American University of Paris with Russell Williams and Kevin Fore from the American University of Paris
• Flipping the Classroom: Promoting Belonging and Confidence in Introductory STEM Courses with Colin Davison from the College of Wooster

11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

• Keynote with Bryan Alexander