CAEBL 2026 - CATLR's Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Learning

JOIN US VIRTUALLY ON THURSDAY, APRIL 30th for CAEBL 2026!

CATLR’s annual Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Learning (CAEBL) brings together educators from across Northeastern’s global network to showcase and inspire teaching and learning-related scholarship and evidence-based practices.

In educational contexts, the term “evidence-based” has multiple meanings, including:

• Designing educational experiences based on findings from research on learning, student development, and other related fields,
• Systematic reflection on the experience of teaching and student work, and
• Carrying out structured inquiries that collect and analyze evidence from teaching to further understand learning.

CONFERENCE THEME

CAEBL 2026 invites Northeastern faculty, staff and students across all disciplines to return to the fundamental question of why learning matters—and why we teach. As AI reshapes education, we face the challenge of pivoting and adjusting while maintaining balance amid chaos, rethinking everything from student and faculty roles in learning to how we assess student work. Yet within this disruption lies an opportunity: to focus on designing experiences that foster engagement and transfer, develop critical thinking skills and creative problem solving and prepare students for an unknown future.

This conference explores how we can partner thoughtfully with AI while keeping human connection at the center—engaging students both with and without technology, motivating genuine learning, and navigating uncertainty together. We invite you to examine what it means to learn at this moment and how to create AI-enhanced education that remains authentically human-centered, helping our students develop not just knowledge, but the adaptive capacities they need most.