Instructional Designer,
Belen Garcia earned her Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology with a focus on engineering education from Purdue University. Her dissertation is about using computer games for middle school science learning. Previously, she taught an introductory instructional technology course for pre-service teachers to design student-centered instruction for K-12. She has also taught Spanish at the college level and German at the high school level. She assists faculty by providing one-to-one consultations and workshops about curriculum redesign, instructional technology, learning theories, instructional design models and best practices to develop online, hybrid and traditional courses.
Belen’s Recent Blog Posts
Teaching your Students to Give Peer Feedback
When discussing peer feedback with faculty, sometimes they question if students know how to give fee…
2026 Open Education Faculty Panel
During fall, the Open Education (OE) Committee from UM- Dearborn organizes the annual faculty panel …
2025 Open Education Faculty Panel
Last September, we had at UM-Dearborn a faculty panel discussion in Zoom about teaching with Open Ed…
Hope in a Time of Monsters: Reflexions to Support Students
This past week I attended the campus presentation from Sarah Rose Cavanagh. She is a psychology prof…
Student Panel: GenAI’s Impact on Learning at UM-D
Written by Belen Garcia, Jessica Riviere, Carla Vecchiola, and Chen Wang, posted by Jessica Riviere …
Tips for Faculty: Dealing with Stress
Many people in higher education expressed concerns about mental health and burn out right after the …







