Academics
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September 23, 2014
Campuswide call issued to develop massive open online courses
Leaders from the new Office of Digital Education and Innovation are calling on faculty to submit proposals to develop massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
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September 15, 2014
Students get up-close, hands-on look at history
“The Land of Israel/Palestine Through the Ages” gives students unique access to ancient artifacts at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
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September 2, 2014
Symposium: Sustaining the biomedical research enterprise
Inauguration day will begin with a symposium marking what is being described as one of the most hopeful and exciting times in biomedical discovery.
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August 28, 2014
New program, office to advance digital education and innovation
The university has established an Office of Digital Education and Innovation to help faculty experiment with programs, technology, digital communities, learning analytics and other innovations.
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August 28, 2014
Och gift impacts students at Ross School of Business, Athletics
The university has announced the creation of the Och Initiative for Women in Finance in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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August 27, 2014
U-M piloting new learning management system as part of Unizin
More than 15 U-M instructors will pilot a new learning management system (LMS) in their courses this fall. Access to Canvas by Instructure became available when U-M co-founded Unizin in June 2014. The Unizin consortium aims to develop a digital education platform that is flexible, has common standards, and supports experimentation. It will offer an evolving… -
August 27, 2014
U-M piloting new learning management system as part of Unizin
More than 15 U-M instructors will pilot a new learning management system in their courses this fall. Access to Canvas became available when U-M co-founded Unizin in June 2014.
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August 11, 2014
Common Reading Experience inspires engineering students, faculty
The College of Engineering’s new Common Reading Experience seeks to get first-year students and faculty thinking about an engineer’s role in society.
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July 17, 2014
Medical School expands research, initiatives for learning at all levels
The Medical School is expanding and refocusing its department that studies learning as an emerging academic field, and has a new chairperson to lead it.
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July 14, 2014
New NCID fellows advance diversity scholarship
How are the monsters and mysteries of the U.S.-Mexico border and cultural influences on student learning and cognition related? They are the research areas of the 2014-15 National Center for Institutional Diversity’s postdoctoral fellows, William Calvos-Quirá½¹s and Wanda Casillas.
