You are invited to join AECT Learner Engagement Division (LED)
March 2026 Membership Meeting
Time: Friday, March 20
4:00 – 5:00 PM (EST)
Location: Zoom
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Featured Presentation
This session features the presentations of the LED 2025 Excellence in Innovation Award recipients, highlighting innovative work that advances learning design and engagement.
Title:
Designing for AI Literacy: "When Life Gives You LLMs, Make LLMonade"
Short Description
This presentation will showcase the development and implementation of "When Life Gives You LLMs, Make LLMonade," a self-paced, asynchronous online training aimed at advancing generative AI (GenAI) literacy among faculty, staff, and students at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The presentation will describe the context of the training, key design decisions, implementation strategies, and participant feedback. It will conclude with design reflections and takeaways relevant to educators and designers developing professional learning experiences around rapidly evolving technologies.
Speakers
Dr. Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb
Dr. Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb is an experienced learning designer, educator, and scholar with a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology and a minor in Human–Computer Interaction from Indiana University Bloomington. She has designed learning experiences across online, face-to-face, and blended modalities, as well as across diverse cultural contexts, including cross-border program design and teaching within a U.S.–China partnership. Her interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work spans faculty and staff development, public health education, and large-scale instructional design initiatives, with a strong emphasis on accessible, ethical, and human-centered learning design. She approaches instructional design as an intentional and reflective process that responds thoughtfully to the specific needs and contexts of learners.
Frederique Laubepin, PhD
Frederique Laubepin, PhD, is a Clinical Instructor and Assistant Director of Instructional Services at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where she leads initiatives that promote innovative, inclusive, and accessible teaching and learning practices. She also serves as the school's Faculty Liaison for Inclusive Teaching and co-leads digital accessibility efforts to support compliance with evolving ADA standards. Dr. Laubepin earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan and previously worked as a research scholar at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Her work focuses on instructional design, faculty development, online and hybrid education, and the responsible integration of emerging technologies in higher education. She collaborates with faculty to design high-impact learning experiences across residential and online programs, including the online MPH program she helped develop and launch. Dr. Laubepin also develops and teaches workshops and courses on generative AI in higher education and public health, emphasizing AI literacy, ethical awareness, and human-centered competencies for an AI-augmented future.
Best regards,
Nesma Nasr
Communications Officer
AECT Learner Engagement Division (LED)
AECT Learner Engagement Division • LED Membership Meeting
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Nesma Ragab Nasr
LED Communication Officer
Ph.D. Candidate, Northern Arizona University
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