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The 2024 Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference (UPTLC) will be hosted by Bay College in Escanaba, Michigan, May 13-14, 2024. This year’s theme is Embracing Change: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners. This theme captures the ongoing challenges wrought by the pandemic, the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and increased awareness of the diverse academic and mental health needs of today’s learners. This conference will create a community of educators invested in honing human and technological skills for successful, sustainable teaching and learning. 

The conference includes pre-conference interactive workshops, optional social activities, and a full conference day of concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and “Birds of a Feather” gathering time. We’re excited to share four timely conference tracks:

  • Teaching techniques for online, hybrid, or virtual learning 

  • Teaching and learning in the age of AI 

  • Engaging modern learners 

  • Self-care for college students and/or college employees

The UPTLC is a regional conference focused on the practice and scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education and K-12 education. The UPTLC creates a space for educators to connect, learn, share, and continue growing skills for teaching and learning. We invite educators and educational staff/administration to submit presentation proposals and/ or attend this conference.

5/7 - Registration is now closed; we can’t wait to see you at UPTLC 2024!

**schedule subject to change**
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Tuesday, May 14 • 12:30pm - 1:15pm
An Immersion into Virtual Reality: Global, Remote Education Now An Overview of the Proposed Presentation

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Bridging the rural education gap through transformational Virtual Reality utilizing technologies available today has become the focus of many. In this presentation the elements and development of such a program will be explored.
Program Focus:
Outlining the process by which the creation of content for any immersive Virtual Reality will be explained in detail. The first element of focus will encompass the methodology by which the initial collaboration builds upon the foundational materials necessary for the completion of the transformation from written word to the complex 360-degree viewpoint achieved. The program described will include the elements of coding, mapping, and storyboarding employed in the creation of the world’s first textbook (completely in Virtual Reality) that can be found in libraries.
Demonstration:
The impact of separation anxiety exhibited in the students that were exposed to the lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the intricacies of the teacher shortages, creates a unique opportunity for accelerated development of programs that will provide a stable learning environment reliant upon Virtual Reality. A synchronous meeting platform that accounts not only for the presence of each individual student, but also the participation of each student by allowing real-time interaction on a created face-to-face milieu.
Participation:
The presentation includes an opportunity to experience “A Day in the Life” of several career fields selected by needs analysis These short but concise day-trips include jobs identified as the most in demand, especially in rural and underserved communities.

Martha Pelaez and Gary Novak2 Published online 2020 Jul 15. doi: 10.1007/s40617-020-00467-2
COVID-19 resource and information guide. National Alliance on Mental Illness. https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/NAMI-HelpLine/COVID-19-Information-and-Resources/COVID-19-Resource-and-Information-Guide. Accessed Oct. 19, 2021.
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Tuesday May 14, 2024 12:30pm - 1:15pm EDT
JHUC 903
  Interactive Session, Teaching techniques for online, hybrid, or virtual learning

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