Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Business Building, University Park and live via Zoom
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration Form
Register on or before July 9, 2025

LDSC 2025 Schedule and Keynote Speaker Panel

Explore the full Learning Design Summer Camp schedule to plan your day of professional development, networking, and discovery. Registration opens at 7:30 AM. The keynote session starts at 8:50 AM with a welcome address by Liz Huck, followed by a keynote panel featuring Chris Gamrat, Chris Millet, and Heidi Watson-Held. Together, they will share their research, experiences, and forward-looking perspectives to help our learning design community grow in confidence and impact. Throughout the day, you’ll attend a variety of engaging sessions and enjoy lunch with a fun round of trivia. The concluding session will begin at 3:30 PM and will feature prizes to close out the day. Afterward, you’re invited to join the LDSC Planning Committee at Brothers Bar and Grill to continue networking and connect informally with colleagues. Zoom links for sessions will be emailed to attendees who have registered one day in advance of camp.

What is Learning Design Summer Camp?

Learning Design Summer Camp is an informal, community-designed gathering of people from across Penn State who are interested in the big issues related to the learning design process, including instructional designers, faculty, students, librarians, education technologists, and multimedia developers.

Attendees discuss issues such as student engagement, assessment and feedback, digital literacy, open educational resources, gamification, accessibility, and the impact of disruptive technologies on the learning process.

You never know what kind of fun activities you will do at camp.

LDSC is a community partnership across the University including Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT), John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, Business eLearning Design and Innovation Group, Center for Teaching Excellence at Harrisburg Campus, World Campus Learning Design, College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Arts and Architecture, College of IST Office of Learning Design, and University Libraries.

A great time to catch up and connect with the Learning Design Community