The TLPDC will hold the next AI mini conference on Friday, January 16, 2026. Start your semester with clarity, confidence, and community. This mini-conference offers practical, ready-to-use approaches you can apply to your courses the very next day. No overhaul required. Whether you teach large lectures, discussion-heavy seminars, labs, or online courses, Teaching from the Same Side equips you with humane, research-informed strategies that reduce friction, improve student buy-in, and protect your time.

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Join us to refresh your teaching mindset and leave with strategies you can use immediately. Can't attend? Recordings and reference materials will be provided to all registrants.

This year, our conference will feature Dr. Michelle Miller. Dr. Miller is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014), Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (West Virginia University Press, 2022), and a new book titled A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024). Dr. Miller completed her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and behavioral neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles and currently serves as a Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University.

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Keynote

Teaching from the Same Side in the Age of AI

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Teams

Surveillance-driven, adversarial pedagogy is unsustainable in contemporary higher education. This is especially true given that generative AI now presents students with nearly undetectable ways of evading coursework they don’t see the value of, and now that more faculty are questioning whether they want to spend their limited time and energy on this kind of surveillance. Teaching from the same side (TSS) offers an alternative lens through which to view the teaching relationship, one that sidesteps transactional and enforcement-driven interactions in favor of working together toward the common goal of learning. Drawing on established frameworks including pedagogy of kindness, transparency, and alternative grading, TSS invites us to shift our focus away from totaling up points and toward learning goals. This interactive talk will review the research background and need for TSS, engaging participants in structured reflection and practice exercises for bringing teaching materials and practices into alignment with TSS principles.

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