Blog - Year - 2014

Jen Lewon uses social media to build student community in distance-learning course. Teaching and Learning Challenge The Speech Language Pathology Prerequisites (SLPP) program is a distance-learning leveling coursework program in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. Many of the SLPP students live in areas where they cannot access traditional (on-campus) undergraduate...

University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business professor Dr. Dan Zhang implemented Google Drive to give his students feedback on papers within ample time to reach the deadline. This way, he can see when and whether students incorporated his feedback into their their papers. Teaching and Learning Challenge I...

Lead Graduate Teacher Program (GTP) students presented their research collaborations regarding teaching with technology at their capstone event in ATLAS this month. Eight groups of Lead GTP students collaborated across disciplines to research different teaching technologies and their effectiveness. Groups presented their results on Friday, April 4 with posters in...

Courtesy of the College of Arts and Sciences Magazine Nils Halverson, PhD, takes teaching seriously. He has been teaching astrophysics at the University of Colorado since 2005. Using Clickers to Spark Discussion Graduate students may be surprised at first when Halverson asks them to use iclickers in their small, focused...

Photo Courtesy of Popturf.com at Flickr Creative Commons Students do more than just kick back and watch movies in Dr. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz’s film courses. Acevedo-Muñoz makes sure he both gives thoughtful lectures and offers students the opportunities to work with the best in film technology. Students nominated him for the...

Wayne Schlingman, PhD teaches Astronomy to non-science majors (JMH Photography) At the end of the semester, students walk into a ‘science-Oscars’ of sorts at the Fiske Planetarium at CU. They look forward to viewing films and possibly even accepting awards for science videos that they created through Wayne Schlingman, PhD’s...

ASSETT's Brenda Niave, Steph Hayden, Ryan Carney-Morgan, and Amanda McAndrew (from left) On Tuesday morning, March 11, more than 70 faculty and staff from all three CU campuses gathered in Norlin Library for a successful half day Web Workshop. ASSETT, The Office of Information Technology and University Communications combined forces...

Accurately understanding and interpreting big data can win a presidential election. Gilad Wilkenfeld brings his Political Science statistics students into computer labs to teach them how to apply statistics concepts to the same software tools that professional political scientists use. Wilkenfeld is a Political Science PhD candidate here at CU...

Deborah Whitehead, PhD Deborah Whitehead, PhD, of the Religious Studies Department at CU is not afraid to share a YouTube video of dancing Quakers in her lectures. She is interested in how religion in the United States is changing and how young adults interact with religious authority today. Students nominated...

Through ICED Video Game, Players Navigate Lives of Undocumented Immigrants In Katie Oliviero's Gender, Sexuality, and Migration course at CU Boulder, students navigate potential situations that undocumented immigrants may encounter in their everyday lives through the video game ICED (I Can End Deportation). Through the eyes of undocumented immigrants, players...