Students chatting with their instructor. One of the students appears on-screen on a Kubi device.

Your New Lab Partner Might Be a Robot...

Aug. 24, 2018

OIT is excited to offer a new service this semester: Kubi - Remote Presence Technology. Kubi is a robotic “neck” that holds a tablet and allows a remote user to control the tablet through a Zoom web conference meeting. From their own computer, the remote student can see, hear, and...

ASSETT's 3D Printer Could Come to Your Class

June 10, 2015

ASSETT student staff investigated the uses of the ASSETT 3D printer that is available to CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences courses for demonstration purposes. What could you with the 3D printer? First, get ideas. Consider how you could use the ASSETT 3D printer to support students' learning. Some...

Women, Gender Studies Purchases Laptops, Software with ASSETT Development Award

May 8, 2015

CU Boulder Women and Gender Studies students tell women's stories with equipment purchased through ASSETT Development Awards. Associate Professor Celeste Montoya's Spring 2015 senior colloquium class created the Feminists of the Front Range project. Montoya's students recorded interviews with self-identified feminists in the Boulder area. Montoya said that students, ".....

ASSETT Development Grant Adds Tech to Philosophy Department's Library

Feb. 5, 2015

The Philosophy Department received an ASSETT Development Award in 2014 to install a technical upgrade to their Reading Room. The Morris Reading Room is the CU Boulder Philosophy Department's library and is located upstairs in Hellems. With the purchases made with ASSETT Development Award funds, the Reading Room now offers...

Kan Archives Language Sound Bites with ASSETT Development Award

Aug. 14, 2014

Research team from left: Wes Song, Dr. Pui Fong Kan, Allina Robertson, Shirley Cheung, and Fan Yin Cheng Last year, CU Boulder Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Center Assistant Professor Pui Fong Kan received an ASSETT Development Award to create web based resources for pathologists who treat patients who are...

Students Nominate Ed Rivers for ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award

July 8, 2014

CU Boulder English Professor Dr. Ed Rivers says that he has not assigned his students to purchase textbooks in 15 years. Instead, Rivers is doing all he can to teach with technology. "I think they appreciate that," he remarks. Indeed, students nominated Rivers for a 2013 ASSETT Teaching with Technology...

Dr. George Rivera's Students' Art Crossed Borders with ASSETT Development Award Funding

June 19, 2014

Does art belong in a combat zone? Dr. George Rivera of the CU Boulder Art Department believes it does. With only a portable printer, Rivera collaborated with university students in Boulder and in Bethlehem, Palestine to create an international art exhibit. He received an ASSETT Development Award last year to...

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?...

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...

Silva Chang Uses Technology to Illustrate Mathematics Concepts

Feb. 5, 2014

Silva Chang projects her lessons from an iPad onto the board in Calculus classes. She works out problems in different colors, asks students questions to predict next steps, and lets them volunteer answers. Chang believes that seeing problems unfold live helps students better understand proper solving procedures. Chang says that...

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