Registration: Adobe Academic Innovation Café Series

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How can institutions light the path toward digital fluency for faculty, not as a one-time workshop, but as a meaningful, year-long journey? In this session, Dr. Troy Hicks and Katie Edmiston of Central Michigan University share the guiding principles and hard-won lessons behind their Digital Learning & Leadership Faculty Fellows program, a structured initiative that empowers a cross-disciplinary cohort of faculty to explore, implement, and reflect on creative and technology-enriched teaching.

You'll hear how Hicks and Edmiston approached faculty development as a thoughtful, iterative process — one grounded in real pedagogical challenges and refined through peer collaboration and reflection. From facilitating a series of inspiring, discussion-based trainings to building a sharable gallery of remixable multimedia assignments, they will show how intentional program design can spark meaningful learning experiences for faculty and students alike.

Attendees will leave with practical frameworks and tangible examples to cultivate similar communities of practice at their own institutions.

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Join this session to explore how Auburn University integrates AI-powered Adobe tools into engineering and cross-disciplinary courses to enhance student engagement and creativity.

You’ll discover how tools like Adobe Podcast and Adobe Express support accessible, high-quality podcast production while reducing technical barriers for students. Through real course examples, this session highlights strategies for designing engaging assignments that build communication skills, creativity, and career-ready digital portfolios.

Leave with practical ideas to implement AI-enhanced podcasting workflows in your own curriculum—no matter your discipline.

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How can a gateway business course equip students with both analytical rigor and the AI literacy they'll need in modern workplaces? In this session, Dr. Chris Cooney of Washington State University's Carson College of Business shares how the redesigned BA 100 course tackles this challenge through an authentic marketing analysis project that mirrors real-world business consulting work.

Cooney will discuss the intentional pedagogy behind embedding AI fluency into foundational coursework while engaging students in meaningful, team-based projects. Students work as marketing consultants on real companies, conducting market analysis, strategy development, and professional reporting—all while leveraging Adobe Express and Firefly AI to develop critical workplace competencies. This approach directly advances the Business College’s mission to ensure students graduate with both marketing knowledge and AI fluency skills employers increasingly demand.

Attendees will leave with concrete strategies for integrating authentic, industry-aligned projects into gateway courses, along with tangible examples of how thoughtful tool selection and project design can spark genuine student engagement and career readiness.

Which session(s) would you like to attend?

	Name	Time
	On-Demand Content
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Purposeful, Sustained, and Iterative: Designing a Digital Learning Fellowship at Central Michigan University	Purposeful, Sustained, and Iterative: Designing a Digital Learning Fellowship at Central Michigan University	8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (PDT)
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Engineering and Cross-Disciplinary Podcasting at Auburn University: Engaging Students with AI-Powered Adobe Tools	Engineering and Cross-Disciplinary Podcasting at Auburn University: Engaging Students with AI-Powered Adobe Tools	10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (PDT)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Building AI Fluency and Career-Ready Skills across the Carson College of Business at Washington State University	Building AI Fluency and Career-Ready Skills across the Carson College of Business at Washington State University	8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (PST)

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