EdgeCon Spring 2026
Date: April 16, 2026
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: $49
Venue: The College of New Jersey
Call for Proposals
Submit your presentation topic for the upcoming EdgeCon Spring 2026 conference! This year’s conference focuses on digital teaching and learning as it is practiced today across higher education. As online, hybrid, and technology-enabled learning continue to shape instruction, advising, assessment, and student support, institutions are navigating questions of pedagogy, access, quality, sustainability, scale, and institutional impact.
We invite proposals that explore how faculty, instructional designers, administrators, IT teams and technologists, and cross-functional teams are approaching digital teaching and learning in real institutional contexts. Sessions may highlight effective practices, evolving approaches, lessons learned, or challenges encountered in the design, delivery, technological infrastructure, and institutional strategy of digital learning experiences.
Accepted session abstracts, along with research papers, case studies, works-in-progress, and more are also eligible to be published in the EdgeCon Proceedings. Learn more about the EdgeCon Proceedings HERE »
The deadline for proposal submissions is March 6.
Vendor/Sponsorship Opportunities at EdgeCon
Exhibitor Sponsorship and Branding/Conference Meal sponsorships are available. Vendors may also attend the conference without sponsoring, but at a higher ticket price of $250.
Contact Adam Scarzafava, Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications, for additional details via adam.scarzafava@njedge.net.
When Digital Learning Becomes Infrastructure: What Changes for Teaching and Learning
Digital learning is no longer experimental in higher education. Learning platforms, analytics, AI tools, and online and hybrid delivery models are now embedded in how institutions teach, advise, assess, and communicate. For many campuses these systems function as core infrastructure shaping everyday academic practice, often without being explicitly named as such.
This keynote panel moves beyond questions of what institutions should adopt next and instead examines what changes once digital learning becomes embedded in the institution. Panelists will explore how decisions affecting pedagogy, accessibility, equity, and academic quality are increasingly made through systems, policies, and vendor configurations—and where responsibility for those decisions truly sits.
The conversation will surface how institutional structures, governance models, and technology ecosystems influence teaching and learning behind the scenes, and what happens when the desire for speed, scale, and automation collides with the need for quality, trust, and accountability. Panelists will also discuss where institutions are intentionally slowing down, adding guardrails, or revisiting assumptions as digital learning continues to scale.
Rather than focusing on emerging trends, this session centers on institutional maturity: how roles and responsibilities shift as digital learning becomes infrastructure, what higher education must still actively own, and where the risks of not deciding are already being felt.
Panelists to be announced!
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