Margaret Ellis

Margaret Ellis

Virginia Tech

Margaret Ellis is professor of practice in the department of computer science at Virginia Tech. She is the 2026 Teaching Scholar Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and recipent of the 2024 IEEE Computer Society Mary Kenneth Keller Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award in recognition for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education.

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A framework for ensuring student AI proficiency

The question is no longer whether students will use AI after graduation but to what extent. So, how can universities best ensure that students are workforce-ready?

Margaret Ellis

Virginia Tech

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Motivation by design: faculty-led strategies for learning that matters

Apps or algorithms alone won’t drive the students of the future to learn. Rather, it will be faculty domain expertise that aligns with how they think, work and learn. Margaret Ellis explains how to design learning for student motivation

Margaret Ellis

Virginia Tech