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Like many other educators, I am not alone in feeling that Generative AI has upended my world. As a literature professor who teaches most of my classes in the online asynchronous format, my entire pedagogy… Read More »Yes, we need an AI policy for our courses. But developing one is just the beginning
On Monday, March 11th, The Hub for Teaching and Learning staff presented a session on recent updates and reflections on what it is like to be working and teaching in the current technological landscape with… Read More »Beyond the Buzz: A Collaborative Inquiry into AI’s Impacts on Teaching
In a time of information overload, the flux of input might seem to either dull individuality or motivate it, curb creativity or encourage it. One of the roles of teachers in the classroom is to… Read More »Make it Your Own: Creative Projects as Agency in Language and Literature Classes
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)
In PBL courses, the use of real-world, community-based projects may be an effective way to engage students with a meaningful problem while teaching them software engineering concepts [1]. Students often become more invested in their… Read More »Using and evaluating teams in PBL Engineering classes
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?
I teach a variety of writing classes–comp 105 and 106, Intro to Creative Writing, upper-level essay writing–but I haven’t used an official textbook in years. I tend to “curate” syllabi around whole-course themes and/or break… Read More »Open Pedagogies in Writing and Statistics
In early November, Disability and Accessibility Services and the Hub partnered to host Dr. Margaret Price for a virtual keynote and an in-person workshop. Margaret Price is an Associate Professor of English (Rhetoric & Composition)… Read More »Recording and Handout Available: Rethinking Accessibility as Community-Building
This post is part 2 of my exploration of the new University of Michigan AI offerings. In part 1 I explored tier one of the offerings: U-M GPT which is very much like ChatGPT but… Read More »Demystifying U-M’s AI Offerings: Part 2