About
Hub Blog
We love teaching and learning
We are a teaching and learning center and we love our work so much that we write about it! Our instructional designers, technologist, and director write about all things teaching and learning in higher education. Additionally, the Hub Blog prides itself as being a place for our faculty to reflect on the practice of teaching!
Our Team
Hub Staff
The Hub team are all authors on this blog. Each of their profile pages has a scheduling link or you can schedule for a first available meeting with any one of them using this link.
- Autumm Caines
Instructional Designer, Autumm joined The Hub in February of 2019. She has earned an M.A. in Educational… Read More »Autumm Caines - Belen Garcia
Instructional Designer, Belen Garcia earned her Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology with a focus on engineering education… Read More »Belen Garcia - Jessica Riviere
Instructional Designer Jessica’s research centers on best practices in graduate education, including supporting graduate student instructors. She… Read More »Jessica Riviere - Carla Vecchiola
Director, Carla Vecchiola is responsible for organizing faculty enrichment sessions, managing teaching grants, and supporting Academic Service-Learning.… Read More »Carla Vecchiola - Chen Wang
Chen Wang joined UM-Dearborn in May 2024. She is an Instructional Technologist reporting half time to Digital… Read More »Chen Wang
Faculty Affiliates
Our Faculty Affiliates work with us on specific projects over the course of the year and from time to time author blog posts about their work. You can find out more about our Affiliates Program on our .edu pages
2024 Hub Faculty Affiliates
- Shelly Jarenski
Shelly is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Affiliate Faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies,… Read More »Shelly Jarenski - Helet Botha
Helet Botha is an Assistant Professor of Business Policy and Strategy at the UM-Dearborn College of Business.… Read More »Helet Botha - Wessam Elmeleigi
Dr. Wessam Elmeleigi is assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the Department of Language, Culture,… Read More »Wessam Elmeleigi
2023 Hub Faculty Affiliates
- Amy Brainer
Amy is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies at the University of… Read More »Amy Brainer - Bruce Maxim
Dr. Bruce R. Maxim is Professor of Computer and Information Science and theNarasimhamurthi “Nattu” Natarajan Collegiate Professor… Read More »Bruce Maxim
Check out our Hub Affiliates from previous years