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.

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.

Ellen Kuhn, Public Engagement Specialist, and Elyse Aurbach, Public Engagement Lead, reflect back some of the barriers to public engagement that campus stakeholders identified during the Conceptualizing Public Engagement series.

The Academic Innovation Data Showcase offered an opportunity for our office to share our ongoing research with the University of Michigan community and explore connections that might not otherwise be apparent. Cait Holman, Associate Director for Research and Development, reflects on the first installment of this potentially annual event.

When the MOOC, Introduction to HTML5 launched in 2015, it became a place for learners to explore into the practical, foundational concepts of web design. Its goal was to help learners uncover the "mystery" behind the Internet; jump into coding; and become familiar with the important but often overlooked concepts of validation and accessibility. Now, a revised version has been released for today’s learning community.