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How is AI reshaping teaching and learning?
Join us for an opening keynote by Claire Howell Major, author of Engaged Teaching, followed by NAU faculty perspectives on AI’s impact on teaching and learning in higher education, plus small-group discussions.
January 7, 2027
du Bois Ballroom & Online
9:00 am – Noon
Breakfast will be available at 8:30 am
Visit Dr. Claire Howell Major’s full biography and website.
Rethinking the Cognitive Contract: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI
Generative AI has made it possible for students to produce fluent, polished work with minimal apparent effort. The consequence of this new technology is a disruption of the implicit cognitive contract in which faculty assign intellectual work, students do that work, and faculty use what students produce as evidence of learning.
This interactive keynote explores the challenge of rethinking that cognitive contract and a reconsideration of what students should be expected to do and how we can tell whether meaningful learning has occurred.
Inquiry Unplugged: Creating Conditions for Concentration
Angie Hansen, PhD
Professor & Chair, Department of English
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Tim Curry, MS ACSM-CEP EIM
Associate Director – IAAAI
Lecturer & Program Director – Department of Health Science
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AI in the Classroom: Two-Way Transparency
Jessie Rack, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
8:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast available
9:00 Program and Keynote
10:45 Faculty Perspectives
11:15 Small-group Discussions
11:45 Reflection and Closing
The online experience will be webinar-style with breakout rooms during small-group discussions. We encourage MT Campus faculty to attend in person; there will be plenty of seating.
NAU Teaching Day is a collaboration of the NAU Teaching Academy, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Office of the Provost.