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During fall, the Open Education (OE) Committee from UM- Dearborn organizes the annual faculty panel discussion about Open Education Resources (OER). On September 23, 2026 our interdisciplinary faculty shared their motivation to use OER, the… Read More »2026 Open Education Faculty Panel
Creating accessible course materials is not only about compliance, it is about creating a learning environment where all students can fully participate and succeed. In higher education, students interact with course content in many different… Read More »Hub Blog: Digital Accessibility Dos and Don’ts for Faculty: Small Changes, Big Impact
Authored by Maya Barak This summer I was fortunate to participate in the Hub’s 2026 Small Changes Course Improvement Studio. Grounded in the Community of Inquiry Framework (CoI), the Studio was organized into three interdisciplinary… Read More »An Inventory of Social Presence: How small course changes can have a big impact on community in the classroom
This post is by faculty author Jill Darling In the recent Digital Education Days panel, “Academic Integrity in the Era of AI,” Jennifer Fisch-Ferguson from Mott Community College spoke about generative AI pushing us to… Read More »GenAI and Academic Integrity
Last month University of Michigan–Dearborn hosted a faculty and staff workshop titled AI, Integrity & Innovation. I was honored to be asked to sit on a faculty panel as part of the day’s events which… Read More »AI, Integrity & Innovation – Faculty and Staff Workshop
This blog post is a book review of an open text book by Yi Maggie Guo, Professor of Information Systems Management, College of Business at UM-Dearborn. Open Educational Resources (OER) are publicly accessible materials created… Read More »Can Pop Culture Make Databases Click?
by Zheng Song I regularly teach CIS 427, Computer Networks. Over the past five years, I’ve taught this course eight times, missing only two semesters. Each time, I’ve tried to make small adjustments to see… Read More »Teaching in the Age of Generative AI: What Should Change and What Shouldn’t?
Last September, we had at UM-Dearborn a faculty panel discussion in Zoom about teaching with Open Education Resources (OER). The panelists shared information about the Open Education (OE) grants they received, how to find OE text… Read More »2025 Open Education Faculty Panel
by Jorge González del Pozo Panic on the CANVAS floor If one of your common main assignments for your classes has been a final essay, you are thinking what I’m thinking… what can I do… Read More »AI vs Final Essay: Leaning on Technology, Rise Above the Tool
by Anna Muller Why I Didn’t Assign a Final Essay? This semester (Fall 2025), I decided not to assign a final essay. Over the past year, I’ve read many student papers whose authorship I quietly… Read More »In Defense of Slow Learning : Reflections on Teaching, Writing, and AI
