Critical Takes are posts which address problematic power structures and advocate for more equitable frameworks
On Wednesday September 25th, the Hub hosted these four panelists: Here is the recording: With the panelists’ consent, I asked UM-GPT to summarize the transcript by time code and this is what it generated (with… Read More »Recording available for the Faculty Panel: Reckoning with AI Writing in the Wake of Pandemic Teaching
On November 29th, 2023, the Hub and the Foundations Program together hosted a campus talk given by Dave Cormier, Digital Learning Specialist at the University of Windsor’s Office of Open Learning. Many thanks are due… Read More »A Conversation Around GenAI: The Opportunity to Grow (Guest Speaker Dave Cormier)
During the last months, Generative AI (GenAI) has dominated many conversations about teaching and specifically ChatGPT is mentioned very often. There has been so much new information every day with different details about ChatGPT that… Read More »Do you need a Syllabus Statement for ChatGPT?
~By Associate Professor of Biology, Dr. David Susko This post is part of a series from the Hub Department Liaisons Program, Winter 2023 Focus: Offline/Online Teaching Strategies Biology is simply the scientific study of life.… Read More »Embracing the Challenges and Opportunities of Offline/Online Teaching Strategies in Biology
~By Jennifer Proctor, Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Production; Member, Hub Advisory Board This post is part of a series from the Hub Department Liaisons Program, Winter 2023 Focus: Offline/Online Teaching Strategies If there’s… Read More »Teaching at a Crossroads: Meeting students where they are in a post-pandemic environment
By Patrick Beauchesne, Hub Faculty Affiliate 2022 (added to blog by Jessica Riviere) “The physiological response to stress…evolved in the context of acute stressors. The chronic nature of stress in modern life forces the body… Read More »Collective Care is Self-Care
Author: Patrick Beauchesne one of our 2021-2022 Hub Faculty Affiliates Photo by Stefano Pollio on Unsplash “A punishing intensification of work has become an endemic feature of academic life. Again, serious discussion of this is… Read More »The Invisible Wounds of Workaholism: Pushing Back Against Academic Conventions
Do you think about socioeconomic class when you teach? Not in terms of the content that you teach but with regard to your own class background and the class background of your students? This question… Read More »How Does Your Class Background Influence Your Teaching Practices?
This post is co-authored between Ali Pavlicek (she/they) academic advisor in UM-D’s START office and Autumm Caines (she/her) instructional designer at UM-D’s Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources. The hardest part about writing this blog… Read More »Can we talk about learning styles? Perspectives from student advising and faculty development
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes This post is cross-posted from the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online blog where it was originally published on March 15, 2022 The best of intentions When I put together the… Read More »Complicating “flexibility” in online learning from a feminist perspective