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
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?
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
This post is guest authored by Erin Bronstein As I finish my twenty-sixth year in education, I like to think I’ve learned a few things about ways to give and manage feedback for students. That… Read More »What I Continue to Learn About Giving Student Feedback
This is a guest post by Dr. Shalini Jayaprakash
By Jamie Shinhee Lee I didn’t like GenAI. Not one bit. I had zero experience with it, zero interest in it. I was atotal skeptic. Maybe that’s why Hub’s (Teaching and Learning Resources) seven-weekGenAI program… Read More »A Sociolinguist’s Journey: From GenAI Skeptic to Half Convert
– By 2024 Hub Affiliate Helet Botha, Assistant Professor of Business Policy and Strategy “Attention with effort is all that any case of volition implies. The essential achievement of the will…is to attend to a… Read More »The Tyranny of the Everything Bagel: Teachers’ Responsibility for Student Digital Distraction During Class Time