Talks & Writing
Keynotes, conference presentations, panels, and writing on generative AI in higher education — from agentic AI and learning interventions to information literacy and the changing role of the academic library.
Leadership in AI Pedagogy
Faculty Mentor — AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and Curriculum
I serve as Faculty Mentor for the AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and Curriculum, where I moderated a panel on agentic AI at the most recent convening and mentor university groups on their AI implementation strategies.
Keynotes & Presentations
- Oct 2026Pre-Conference Workshop
Designing Learning Environments in an Agentic World: Coordinating Students, Instructors, and AI
AAC&U Conference on AI and Higher Education, AtlantaDetails → - Mar 2026
- Jan 2026Keynote
Agentic AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education
AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum - Sep 2025Presentation
AI as a Learning Intervention
AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the CurriculumSlides → - Sep 2025Presentation
Using Situated Learning Theory and ChatGPT to Build Scenario-Based Learning Assessments
AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the CurriculumSlides → - Feb 2025
- Nov 2024Presentation · Award
AI Design Challenge: Make Your Own Instructional Design Tool!
OLC Accelerate · with Sue HuffmanInnovative Learning Environments & Technologies — Best-in-Track AwardSlides → - Aug 2024Presentation
AI Innovation Showcase: Enhancing Course Design with GPTs
ASU Learning Design Community Summer Camp - Mar 2024Lightning Talk
Enhancing Course Design with GPTs
Future of Learning Community
Panels
As Moderator
- AI in Education: Implementing Generative AI in Your Courses
- Generative AI Engineering Faculty Panel
As Panelist
- The AI Technology Landscape and What Is to Come
- Generative AI: Responsible Use Through Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
- ChatGPT and Its Implications for the Field of Librarianship
- Generative AI & ChatGPT Follow-Up Panel
Writing
- 1 McMichael, J., Peña, K., & Dalal, M. "Technology-Enhanced Student Success Program Short Report: GenAI's Approach for First-Year, First-Generation College Students." Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 7 No. 2, July 2023.
- 2 "Artificial Intelligence and the Research Paper: A Librarian's Perspective." SMU Libraries Blog, January 2023.