Kickstart your Winter 2025 with CAEN’s comprehensive workshop series

CAEN is offering a series of Winter 2025 Workshops (January 22-February 6) for Michigan Engineering faculty and staff, focusing on enhancing digital accessibility and educational technology. Sessions include writing effective U-M GPT prompts, creating accessible digital documents, enhancing video accessibility and exploring funding opportunities through Digital Accessibility Grants.

Workshop schedule:

Wednesday, January 22

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Teaching-focused grant proposals: Deadline extended to January 3

Want to implement innovative strategies for engaging and supporting all learners in Michigan Engineering courses? The Enhancing Engineering Education (E3) Grants Program has extended the deadline for applications across a range of innovations in engineering education, including instructional practices, course design and content, and instructional technology.

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CAEN Winter Success Workshop Series: November 14-December 5

CAEN is excited to announce its Winter Success Workshop Series, offering an array of sessions designed to enhance your knowledge of available teaching and learning tools. This season’s dynamic lineup runs November 14 through December 5, 2024 and includes these sessions:

  • Unlocking Funding Potential: Navigating E3 Grants
  • An Introduction to Student Polling Using Poll
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The E3 Grants Program is accepting applications for teaching-focused grant proposals

Want to implement innovative strategies for engaging and supporting all learners in Michigan Engineering courses? The Enhancing Engineering Education (E3) Grants Program invites proposals across a range of innovations in engineering education, including instructional practices, course design and content, and instructional technology. 

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AI privacy at U-M

While today there is no shortage of options for generative AI tools, we often overlook the importance of privacy when using them. It can be difficult to determine who can see the information you share and how it’s being used. The University of Michigan takes your privacy seriously and ensures that your privacy is protected Continue Reading »

Overleaf Professional now available to students, faculty and staff

Overleaf is an online LaTeX and Rich Text editor that helps users write, edit and produce research papers and project reports more quickly. The university has recently subscribed to Overleaf Commons, which provides Overleaf Professional accounts to all students, faculty and staff. Overleaf Professional includes access for unlimited collaborators, and offers features such as real-time Continue Reading »

Importance of creating accessible course content for students

Addressing accessibility is a shared responsibility that enriches our academic environment and supports our goal of fostering an inclusive educational experience for future engineers. This goes beyond legal obligations; it enhances the learning experience for all students.

Accessible design benefits everyone in the university community, making digital resources like websites, mobile applications and digital course Continue Reading »

U-M Maizey: A powerful GenAI tool now integrated with Canvas

U-M Maizey has been updated for the fall semester. U-M Maizey is a dynamic tool designed to enhance the GenAI experience for faculty and students by leveraging custom datasets. Maizey empowers users to extract valuable insights, discover patterns and gain deeper knowledge from the available datasets. 

New Features

  • Multiple Data Source Support
  • Data Source Indexing
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