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How might we integrate academic technologies based on students’ learning needs and validation? The students have spoken! We asked them to comment on the coolest technologies faculty use in our fall Learning with Technology Survey. By far, the most frequently mentioned cool tech was Clickers. Students described a diversity of...

Even though it’s only February, now is a good time to start planning to collect some mid-semester student feedback. Try asking students a few open ended questions like what has most helped their learning, what has not helped their learning, and what suggestions do they have going forward. For larger...

Lisa Dilling is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program. She plans to use NB along with Padlet in order to improve engagement and active learning opportunities in a medium sized enrollment class. Dilling completed the Fall 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Teaching and Learning Challenge The problem...

Sabahat Adil, an Assistant Professor of Arabic in Asian Languages and Civilizations, plans to implement Timeline JS into her Islamic Culture and the Iberian Peninsula Course. Adil hopes for students to use Timeline JS to be in charge of their own learning and to create their own foundation of knowledge...

We welcome applicants for the Spring 2016 Hybrid Course Design Seminar for faculty in tenure-track or instructor ranks. The seminar will meet for two hours, 6-8 times during the course of the semester. Selected faculty will be expected to participate in all sessions, to contribute to an online forum, and...

David Brown, PhD, is the Department Chair in the Department for Political Science and a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Science at CU Boulder. Gale completed the Fall 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. He implemented the use of Padlet in his Political Science class in order to...

For this new year, whether you're vowing to try new things or to get back to the basics, here are a few non-techy ideas to spice up your courses. You've probably heard the term active learning and it might sound a little daunting or chaotic. Yet, the most used definition...

How might we check for understanding when sharing videos with students? Google forms now lets you embed videos from Youtube! So, if you’ve been busy creating screencasts or if you regularly ask students to watch youtube videos before coming to class, now you can easily create a few short questions...

Want to try something new in your course? ASSETT is offering a 1 day workshop on techniques that can help you if you find yourself running out of lecture time, covering more remedial material than you’d prefer, or wanting to try a different approach to increase student engagement. ASSETT’s Flipped...

Photo credit: http://www.colorado.edu/insidecu/editions/2005/9-13/ Professor John Bally, a professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, was awarded a Fall 2014 ASSETT Development Award, which he used towards making new visualizations in the Fiske Planetarium to use with undergraduate introductory astrophysics classes. The visualizations were created from data from multiple expeditions and even...