Presentations

My work explores the evolving theory and practice of metaliteracy and its role in supporting teaching and learning in AI-mediated environments. Through keynote presentations, invited talks, faculty development, workshops, online learning, and international collaborations, I engage educators, librarians, researchers, academic leaders, and students in conversations about learner agency, educational innovation, and the future of learning through metaliteracy.

Over the past two decades, I have presented keynote addresses, invited talks, and workshops for universities, professional organizations, and international conferences across North America, South America, Europe, and Africa, engaging academic communities in the ongoing development and application of metaliteracy.

Metaliteracy

Metaliteracy provides the foundation for my scholarship, teaching, and educational initiatives. My work explores how learners become active participants in creating, sharing, evaluating, and reflecting upon information and knowledge across evolving digital environments.

Representative work includes the award-winning book with Trudi E. Jacobson, Metaliteracy in a Connected World: Developing Learners as Producers (2022); keynote presentations on learner agency, metaliterate learning, and learners as producers; and ongoing research and faculty development that advances metaliteracy in higher education.

AI and Metaliteracy

My current research extends metaliteracy to teaching and learning in AI-mediated environments. This work examines how learners and educators engage thoughtfully, ethically, and creatively with artificial intelligence while fostering learner agency, critical thinking, collaboration, and reflective practice.

Representative work includes the forthcoming book with Dr. Nicola Marae Allain, AI and Metaliteracy: Empowering Learners for the Generative Revolution (2027); the opening invited virtual keynote, From Information Literacies to Metaliteracy: Learner Agency in an AI-Mediated World, at iConference 2026; the keynote presentation Developing Metaliteracy to Empower Learners for the Generative AI Revolution at Magdalena University in Colombia (2024); the forthcoming AI Learning with Metaliteracy Coursera course developed through my SUNY Empire AI Fellowship; and the collaborative AI and Metaliteracy OER Toolkit, funded through a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG).

Metaliteracy in Practice

Metaliteracy informs my approach to designing innovative learning experiences across higher education. Through faculty development, collaborative online international learning (COIL), international virtual exchange, digital storytelling, MOOCs, and open educational resources, I explore how metaliteracy supports collaboration, intercultural communication, reflective practice, and learner agency across diverse educational contexts.

Representative work includes the book with Dr. Sheila Marie Aird, Teaching with Digital Storytelling: Inspiring Voices Through Online Narratives (2024); our essay, Integrating Metaliteracy into the Design of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Course in Digital Storytelling (2022); participation in the international Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy and Metaliteracy (IPILM) project, which brings together educators and students through collaborative virtual exchange; and my article, Embedding Metaliteracy in the Design of a Post-Truth MOOC: Building Communities of Trust (2020). These initiatives demonstrate how metaliteracy informs innovative approaches to online learning, international collaboration, faculty development, and open education.

For a complete list of keynote presentations, invited talks, workshops, publications, and educational initiatives spanning more than two decades, please see my curriculum vitae.