Blog - Year - 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...

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 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...

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?...

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...

"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 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...

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...

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...

Courtesy of J E Theriot, flickr.com, Courtesy of J E Theriot, flickr.com Dr. Janet Casagrand created screencasts for her incoming students to watch so that all students would be up to par. Teaching and Learning Challenge I teach a large, upper division Integrative Physiology courses (IPHY 4720: Neurophysiology). Neurophysiology involves...