Digital Education Day

The UM-Dearborn Office of Digital Education, the Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources, and our colleagues at Henry Ford College, University of Michigan-Flint, Mott Community College, and our newest partner, Washtenaw Community College are proud to announce our Digital Education Days 2026 events!

Digital Education Days 2026 is three day event, with two days being virtual and one in-person.  The event is open to faculty and staff from the 5 participating campuses.  There is no cost for any of the sessions, though registration for each individual session is required.

Friday, February 6, 2026 - 10:00 a.m-11:15 a.m. (Zoom)

Keynote Panel - “Academic Integrity in the era of Artificial Intelligence”

This virtual event will have one panelist from each campus, providing a variety of views and experiences with Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity.  The panelists are:

• Stein Brunvand, Associate Provost, University of Michigan-Dearborn
• Jennifer Fisch-Ferguson, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
  Mott Community College
• David Maier, Professor of Computer Information Systems, Henry Ford College
• Murali Mani, Professor of Computer Science, College of Innovation and Technology, University of Michigan-Flint
• Kim Moscardelli, Professor of Computer Information Systems, Henry Ford College
• Claire Sparklin, Washtenaw Community College

Wednesday February 11, 2026 - 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m. (Zoom)

Session options from four different campuses are available below.  Register for the session(s) that most interest you (one registration per time slot, please).

1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m .Sessions:

• Making Learning Accessible: What You Can Do Right Now

  • Presented by Nick Gaspar, University of Michigan-Flint

  • The Oracle Effect: Trust, Skepticism, and AI

    • Presented by Amy Higgins & Molly Ledermann, Washtenaw Community College

2:00 p.m.-2:50p.m. Sessions:

• No Prep GenAI Workshop: Prompts for Teaching

  • Presented by the Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources, University of Michigan-Dearborn

• Metacognitive Equity, Academic Integrity and AI: Blending the Modern and Medieval

  • Presented by Scott Still, Henry Ford College

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 10:00 a.m.-Noon (In-Person)

From Conversation to Practice: An Unconference on GenAI in Teaching

Unfortunately, the in-person unconference has been cancelled due to a low number of registrants.

• "All Online Education Is Not the Same: Faculty-Centered Digital Pedagogy" keynote presented by Jonathan Rees, Professor of History, Colorado State University - Pueblo (2017).
• "Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, and Healing" keynote presented by UM-Dearborn alumna Mays Imad, professor of Pathophysiology and Biomedical Ethics at and founding coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center at Pima Community College (2022).
• "Design for the Mind: Strategies from the Psychology of Learning" keynote presented by Dr Michelle Miller, author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014), director of the First Year Learning Initiative and Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Northern Arizona University (2019).
• "Digital Education and Academic Innovation" keynote presented by Dr. James Hilton, Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan (2018).
• "Synchronicity: Care, COVID, and Connected Learning" presented by Robin DeRosa, Director, Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative Plymouth State University (2020).
• We Cannot “Return to Normal” presented by Dr. Amy Collier, Associate Provost for Digital Learning at Middlebury College (2023).

Recordings of many of the sessions listed above (and more) are available on the public Digital Education Day MiVideo Channel.