Nick Gaspar

Nick Gaspar is the director of Online and Digital Education at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he also teaches healthcare informatics to third year nursing students. He focuses on helping students learn in ways that fit their lives and centers his work on flexible, community-minded teaching that meets people where they are.

He has spent twenty-five years working in academia, and that experience shapes how he looks at the problems teachers face every day. He serves and works in a city shaped by economic loss and environmental crisis, and he has seen how strong teaching lifts students and strengthens a community.

Nick believes that AI can widen access to education, but only if we work together to get this right. His books guide readers through practical teaching decisions and offer clear steps forward. He writes in a way that makes readers feel like he’s sitting next to them, talking through the work as they go.