Initiative Spotlight

Academic Innovation is partnering to design and develop a range of initiatives at the intersection of academic excellence, inclusion and innovation.

Provides mental health resources to students.
ViewPoint, role-playing simulations
Provides instructors with a platform to create and implement engaged, interactive role-playing simulations in and outside of classrooms.
Act on Climate
Encourages and supports social action to address and respond to climate change.
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Does the idea of shaping learning to be more personalized, engaged and lifelong excite you? Do you think innovation can make positive change on campus? Explore the many different ways you can get involved with Academic Innovation.

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The Academic Innovation Blog

Course cards for the Arabic translations for "Programming for Everybody" and "Leading Teams" and the Spanish translation of the "Successful Negotiation" course.

Are We Ready to Move Beyond Translations? Making a Multilingual Destination for Learning and Problem Solving

James DeVaney, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, describes our efforts to lower barriers to high-quality education from the University of Michigan through language translations in massive open online courses.
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Using Simulation to Develop Leaders

David Nesbitt, software portfolio manager, shares about the collaboration between Academic Innovation and the Sanger Leadership Center that led to the implementation of ViewPoint in Sanger’s Leadership Crisis Challenge.
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