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NWACC Instructional Technology Roundtable 2023
2023-11-01 16:30 - 2023-11-03 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Courtyard Marriott Portland City Center, 550 SW Oak Street, Portland, OR, 97204, United States
November 1-3, 2023
Courtyard City Center
550 SW Oak St
Portland, OR 97204
2023 NWACC IT Agenda

Roundtable 2024
2024-11-06 - 2024-11-08
NWACC Instructional Technology Roundtable 2024
Humanizing Education
November 6-8, 2024
Courtyard City Center, 550 SW Oak St Portland, OR 97204
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Keynote: Michelle Pacansky-Brock: What Humanizing Means Now
As we move forward from COVID, we continue to see increases in loneliness and burnout. With more students opting for online classes and AI capsizing our traditional approaches, emotions are piqued among faculty, staff, and students. How do we best support teaching and learning through this era of disruption and uncertainty? This presentation will provide an overview of the evolution of humanizing, an instruction model scaling in California, and couch it within our current challenges to help us collectively identify what humanizing means to higher education now.
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Roundtable 2025
2025-11-05 16:30 - 2025-11-07 11:30
NWACC Instructional Technology Roundtable 2025
Access Granted: Rethinking Learning with Accessibility, AI and Instructional Design
November 5-7, 2025
Courtyard City Center
550 SW Oak St, Portland, OR 97204
Keynote: Scott James, Professor and Distance Education Coordinator, Santiago Canyon College
Awakening Superpowers: Human-Centered AI for Teaching and Learning
AI isn’t a shortcut—it’s an accessibility engine and ability amplifier. Scott will demonstrate how removing barriers and busywork helps students—especially learners with disabilities and neurodivergent learners—thrive. We’ll tour practical approaches using edtech and AI to jump-start motivation and executive function (getting started, chunking work, sustaining focus). We’ll also explore custom chatbots for instructional design and student support that amplify faculty capacity and help every learner go deeper, with strategies that mitigate bias, improve accuracy, respect copyright, and promote transparency of information.
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