TLT Symposium 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025 TLT Symposium!

This annual event showcases ways that technology can be used to enhance teaching, learning, and research. The intent is give faculty and staff the opportunity to share how they are using technology in unique ways, network with other colleagues, and generate new project ideas. More information and event details can be found on the TLT Symposium Website.

Thank you our Blue Sponsor, Top Hat. Your support for the TLT Symposium is appreciated.

Donate to the Lion’s Pantry!
This year the TLT Symposium is again providing an opportunity for attendees to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal, Zero Hunger by donating items to the Lion’s Pantry. Items can be dropped off throughout the day at the Symposium.

10:15am EDT

Immersive Learning with VR: Transforming Education Across Disciplines

Saturday March 22, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am EDT

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Hear from three different faculty groups on the ways they incorporated unique VR experiences into their classrooms to enhance student engagement and learning.

- Virtual Reality Experience of Hawaiian Coral Reefs: Experience Hawaiian Coral Reef Ecosystems with footage captured by a dive professional at many world-famous dive sites around Oahu.
- Virtual Prison: Analysis of Student Engagement with a VR Prison Simulation: Learn how VR immerses students in realistic criminal justice environments, fostering deeper empathy, critical reflection, and a more profound understanding of justice system reform.
- Engagement and Deep Learning: Using VR to Foster Active Learning with PTA Students: Review student feedback, current data, and future applications of VR in both educational and clinical settings, highlighting how VR is revolutionizing the learning experience for students in the PTA program and healthcare.

Attendees will have an opportunity to explore the immersive experiences using VR headsets during the Discovery Session.

Speakers

Shauntey James

Sarah Kettell

Educational Applications Developer, Penn State Harrisburg

Renee Borromeo

PTA Program Head / Coordinator, Penn State Mont Alto

Physical Therapist Assistant Program Coordinator at Mont Alto. Interested in student engagement, using video and social media in instruction and assessment of students skills and abilities. Disciplinary interests: Kinesiology and Pathophysiology. Personal interests: theater, music... Read More →

Anne Hill

Amanda Snider

Nick Smerker

Traveling Media Consultant, Penn State Media Commons

William Serson

Saturday March 22, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am EDT
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Immersive Experiences, Concurrent Session

11:15am EDT

AI Tools for Accessibility: ASR, Image Recognition, ChatGPT and Beyond

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT

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This session will discuss key AI technologies used to help both users with disabilities and those responsible for providing accessible content. The IT Accessibility will demo tools which uses AI for, automatic speech recognition (ASR), image recognition and PDF remediation and others from both a AT user’s and editor’s perspective. As with other areas of AI, some tools show great promise for streamlining accessibility, but also come with the need to ensure quality control.

Speakers

Michelle McManus

Natalie Harrison

Elizabeth Pyatt

Saturday March 22, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
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Artificial Intelligence, Concurrent Session

1:45pm EDT

Artificial intelligence in class: community standards and information literacy

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:45pm - 2:15pm EDT

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Microsoft Copilot is an artificial intelligence tool, freely available to our community behind the PSU login. Students in my fall interdomain class (Chocolate Worlds) developed community guidelines for when and how Copilot AI should be used for projects. I’ll report on their choices and their reflections at the end of the course. Session participants will try prompts and discuss Copilot’s responses. We also will compare the AI summaries generated for results of related Google searches. Resources for learning about AI will be provided as a take-away, along with suggestions for building frameworks for AI use in classes.

Speakers

Lauraine Hawkins

faculty member

Biologist, Penn State Mont Alto

Saturday March 22, 2025 1:45pm - 2:15pm EDT
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Artificial Intelligence, Concurrent Session

2:30pm EDT

From Hallucinations to Hitting the Mark: Leveraging Existing Content to Jumpstart Online Course Authoring with a Custom GPT

Saturday March 22, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT

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Authoring quality online course content is a chore. At the same time many course authors have spent years prepping and refining classroom lecture content and resources. What if existing content— lectures, slides, author publications, workbooks, assessments, and other resources— could be leveraged in a custom GPT to jumpstart the difficult task of writing online course content? In this session, you will hear about a collaboration among faculty members and instructional designers who are doing just that for an upcoming World Campus Online Faculty Development course.

Speakers