Collaboration Technologies

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...

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...

Project entails teacher coaching in rural Colorado serving approximately 30 educators in a large rural mountain school district. Project piloted the use of video coaching with one master teacher and one classroom teacher in an elementary school. Purpose of the pilot was test out equipment, identify potential issues with the...

Reading and understanding academic articles are critical parts of social science education. With the onslaught of information that students confront everyday, their attention span is likely getting shorter increasingly. Yet, the benefits that they would reap from actively engaging with academic articles remain high. This presents a compelling reason for...

Producing original creative work is a central portion of virtually all of the courses that I teach. In some instances students work individually on projects, submitting them over the course of the semester (and completely a large final project). In other cases, students work collaboratively the entire time. In still...

I approached my “technology intervention” with grand and ambitious ideas of using rarely heard of software and platforms to unite my students in collaborations with students around the planet. However, a short dip in that river revealed to me that I had some preliminary dipping to do before I expanded...

I would like to explore the use of technology, and particularly social media, in helping my students to play (in the “deep play sense”) in my class this semester. I'm teaching an upper-division class, our senior capstone seminar, to ten undergraduates, on narrative. It seems to me that the primary...

It wasn’t necessarily the poem that made them nervous, but the question that followed: "Can any of you relate to the narrator?" asked instructor Jenna Montazeri after they had finished reading "This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams: "Have you ever done something wrong and displayed false remorse?"...

Students from Ireland and Australia can now interact in a classroom with students from CU Boulder . What is so intriguing about this you ask? It is the fact that these students are living in different spheres of the world while still interacting “face to face” with one another in...