Teaching for Tomorrow:
Building Transferable Skills and Lifelong Learners
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Join us Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, for Elon’s annual
Teaching
and Learning Conference
co-hosted by the Center
for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and
Teaching
and Learning Technologies.
This year we welcome presenters and attendees to a
free day of offerings for in-person and online attendees. Those available to join the conference in-person, on Elon’s central campus, will experience a morning of concurrent sessions and a poster session, followed by a keynote by Dr. Susannah
McGowan, lunch, and an afternoon workshop that extends ideas from the workshop to your own teaching practice. Those joining online will remotely attend concurrent sessions and the keynote presentation.
Keep reading to learn more about our extended
call for proposals, our keynote Dr. Susannah McGowan, and how you can register for the event!
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We are inviting proposals for presentations in two formats:
More information about proposal types and submission guidelines is available on the conference
website.
Presenter spots are limited.
Submit
your proposal by
April 6, 2026 at 11:59pm EST.
For questions, please contact t...@elon.edu.
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Conference Keynote
Susannah
McGowan, Ph.D. is the Director for Curriculum Transformation Initiatives at
The
Red House at Georgetown University, where she leads institution-wide efforts focused on student co-creation, inclusive pedagogy, and curriculum innovation. Previously, she co-founded King’s Academy at King’s
College London and has held leadership roles with ISSOTL and the Gardner Institute for Excellence in Higher Education. She is a Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE and serves on the editorial board of
Teaching and Learning Inquiry.
At the 2026 Teaching and Learning Conference, she will deliver the keynote:
Boldness by Design: Reimagining our University from the Classroom Out
What are the conditions we can create together to reimagine the university we want and the university we need at this moment? This talk explores the ways that universities can move from
preserving tradition to designing new models, structures, and pathways towards the learning we seek in our students and their flourishing. Drawing from recent efforts around experiential learning, questions about the capacities we seek to develop in our students,
and the broader forces at play in higher education, Dr. McGowan will explore how we can navigate transformative change at a moment when placing human experience, relationships, and complex problem-solving at the center of education is more important than ever.
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Afternoon Workshop
In-person attendees are invited to participate in an afternoon
lunch and interactive workshop led by our keynote speaker, Dr.
Susannah McGowan, and Dr.
Sarah Bunnell, Director of CATL and Associate Professor of Psychology.
With constant local and global change, future thinking is critical to ensuring that curriculum and courses remain flexible and help students develop transferable skills for an evolving world. In this in-person workshop, participants
will engage in activities that challenge us to think boldly about redesign in our classrooms. Together, we will explore how to assess our capacity for change, build partnerships that enable new approaches to teaching and learning, and empower students to think
deeply, and perhaps differently, about the purpose of their education.
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