Posts published by Belen
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
This past week I attended the campus presentation from Sarah Rose Cavanagh. She is a psychology professor and the senior associate director for teaching and learning at the Center for Faculty Excellence at Simmons University.… Read More »Hope in a Time of Monsters: Reflexions to Support Students
Written by Belen Garcia, Jessica Riviere, Carla Vecchiola, and Chen Wang, posted by Jessica Riviere | Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash On October 22nd, 2024, the Hub hosted a student panel for a faculty… Read More »Student Panel: GenAI’s Impact on Learning at UM-D
Many people in higher education expressed concerns about mental health and burn out right after the pandemic and at times it felt the topic was discussed everywhere. Many months later I am not sure things… Read More »Tips for Faculty: Dealing with Stress
This blog post is a book review of an open text book from OpenStax by Simona Marincean, assistant professor of Chemistry at UM-Dearborn. Open Educational Resources (OER) are publicly accessible materials created purposely to be… Read More »Book Review: OpenStax McMurry Organic Chemistry
Have you noticed that many students do not know how to study? Some students have mastered the art to study, while others procrastinate until the night before the exam. Some students ran out of time… Read More »Are you frustrated with your students’ performance? Teach them how to learn
The end (or the beginning) of the semester is a good time to start reflecting on things you can improve in your classes and it is a good idea to include in your reflection the… Read More »Does student engagement matter?
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?
At the end of the Spring 2023, there was a virtual faculty panel about Open Education Resources (OER) with campus faculty. Six faculty members from UM-Dearborn shared their experiences applying for OER grants, writing OER… Read More »OER Faculty Panel
Photo by kike vega on Unsplash This semester, the questions about how to teach effectively in times of COVID continue and trying to find the best approach to fit our current situation is still on… Read More »Teaching In-person and online simultaneously is not easy (but also not impossible)