ASSETT Flipped Classroom Workshops

June 10, 2014

"It's not just another buzzword," said ASSETT Teaching with Technology Consultant Jacie Moriyama. She and ASSETT's other Teaching with Technology Consultants Amanda McAndrew and Nigora Azimova introduced and led three full day workshops about flipped learning classrooms this spring. More than 20 CU Boulder instructors attended to learn about pedagogy...

Technology Facilitates In Class Group Work and Student Understanding in Deserai Crow's Environmental Studies Lectures

June 9, 2014

Watch this video of Dr. Deserai Crow reflecting on pedagogy and her use of Google Drive for in-class group work in large Environmental Studies lectures. Teaching and Learning Challenge Beginning in fall semester 2013, I began to teach much larger lectures than I had previously taught. This was in part...

Beth Osnes's Â鶹ÒùÔº Use Solar-Powered Shadow Puppet Theatre to Communicate Clean Energy Ideas

June 9, 2014

Dr. Beth Osnes trained her students in solar powered puppet theatre to create a performance about clean energy. She also took her students all the way to the Navajo Nation, where students hosted a photo booth for traditionally underrepresented groups to make their voices heard. Teaching and Learning Challenge Multi-modal...

Bret Fund Uses Gogy to Spark Interactive Discussion in Entrepreneurial Course

June 6, 2014

Bret Fund used Gogy online slides to invite his students to participate more in an entrepreneurial business course. Teaching and Learning Challenge Educators often struggle with two problems in classes that require some type of lecture component. First, educators often underutilize the collective knowledge and experience of the audience due...

Applying Natural Science Concepts to Calculus Programming in Eric Stade's Math 1310 Course

June 3, 2014

Want to model the progress of a disease over a month's time? Sure, just write a calculus equation that would model the statistics of the disease's progression for one hour at a time. Got that done? Now, just solve the problem over and over again until...Did you fall asleep yet?...

Holly Gayley Earns 2013-2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award

May 27, 2014

When it comes to incorporating technology into teaching, Holly Gayley has run the gamut. Gayley, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at CU Boulder, has harnessed several of ASSETT's resources over the past few years to help make her teaching more effective. She first participated in ASSETT's 2012 Teaching with Technology...

Mojzsis Piques Â鶹ÒùÔº' Interest With Technology

May 20, 2014

"I wake up in the morning, and I can't wait to come to work," says Dr. Stephen Mojzsis of the Geological Sciences Department at CU Boulder. Mojzsis takes interest in his students and now even collaborates on the research level with some former students from past introductory geology courses. Mojzsis...

Faculty Learn from Teaching with Technology Seminar

May 20, 2014

Faculty members Giorgio Corda, Dave Rickels, Holly Gayley, Janet Casagrand, Elena Kostoglodova, and Jen Lewon participated in both the Teaching with Technology Faculty Seminar and the Hybrid and Online Course Design Seminars this past 2013-2014 academic year. These faculty presented at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium at...

Technology Facilitates In-Class Discussions in Flaxman's General Biology Course

May 14, 2014

Attribution to ynse at Flickr Creative Commons When Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Sam Flaxman, PhD, plans his General Biology course lessons, he asks himself, 'What can I do in the classroom that makes it worth coming to?' Flaxman says he weighs the value of what he can...

Considering an Interactive Syllabus at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium

May 14, 2014

Jesse Stommel was the keynote speaker at the Second Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium. About 50 CU faculty and staff representing more than one CU campus attended his talk, "Rewriting the Syllabus: Examining New Hybrid and Online Pedagogies." ASSETT Director Michele Jackson led an introduction about what it means...

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