The Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning's (ITEL) inaugural Future of Learning Technologies (FLT) Showcase aims to highlight the transformational work across UIUC that is reimagining and advancing how people will learn with and through technology in the future. With a particular focus on technological advances that build on a foundation of understanding how and why people learn, the FLT Showcase will bring together researchers, educators, and developers from across campus. Participants will engage in multidisciplinary sessions, demos, and discussions around visions of what this future for learning will look like and how we can best support learners - from all stages of life, and across formal and informal settings. We anticipate that the FLT Showcase will serve as means for highlighting the diversity of innovative work happening at the intersection of technology and learning across campus, and as a catalyst for broader interdisciplinary knowledge sharing, conversations, and collaborations. To this end, we are open to expansive ideas of what future learning technologies might entail, and to hosting research and designs that at the early stages of their development (e.g., innovative work by graduate students).
The ITEL Future of Learning Technologies Showcase will be a one day event and will take place on May 11, 2026 at the College of Education.
The Showcase will consist of two strands, short paper presentations and interactive technology poster sessions.
Short paper presentations will provide participants with the opportunity to give a 15 minute talk on their innovative learning technology research. The format will be similar to conference presentations, with three speakers presenting in each block of talks. Preference will be given to submissions that have tools and research that are in some stage of development (i.e., are not just theoretical).
The interactive poster session will be a 1-hour session in which researchers will have the opportunity to let attendees experience their innovative tools hand-on. Our goal for this session is to enable attendees and participants to explore and discuss novel learning technologies in an open, discursive format. Submissions to this track must have a functional technology (even if it is in an early stage of development).
The format for both submissions strands are identical:
The submission deadline for the showcase is Wednesday April 15th, but early submissions are encouraged.
Please submit your proposal to the following form: https://bit.ly/ITELShowcase2026