Every spring, CETL offers Walls Optional, a one-day conference for faculty and staff focused on teaching, learning, and technology.
About & registration
2022 Date: Wednesday, April 27
Theme: Regrounding and Reconnecting
Our goal is to provide a space for you to share the ideas, practices, and resources surrounding teaching, learning, and the use of educational technologies that excite you, energize you, and support you in your work.
Over the past two years, our teaching and learning communities have been disrupted in fundamental ways. Walls Optional 2022 provides an opportunity for us to reground, reconnect, and reflect as a college community.
Everyone is invited to attend, whether you are new to the college in a term instructor role, or you are a seasoned instructor, an administrator or in an educational support role. This day is for everyone.
History of Walls Optional
Keynote speakers from earlier Walls Optional events
2021
Responding to COVID
Mary Burgess
2020
Postponed due to COVID
2019
Universal Design for Learning
Shane Baker
Melissa Lyon
Sue Doner
Sheryl Haynes
2018
Learning spaces
Adam Finkelstein
2017
Resilience
Monique Grey Smith
2016
Creativity and Design Thinking
Ben Weinstein
Yael Katz
2015
Communities of Practice
Beverly Wegner Trayner
2014
Education technology from a CEO perspective
Jonathan Baker
2013
Open Education
David Porter
2012
Democratization of teaching and learning
Blended delivery
David Kahane
Ike Shibley
2011
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Tony Bates
2010
Information Literacy
Mike Eisenberg
2009
Social media and education
Alec Corous
2008
Trends in educational technology: reflections on the Horizon Report
Brian Lamb
Scott Leslie