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Teaching Tip: 12 Ways to Engage Students Online

Feb. 6, 2020

Doris Cheung , Learning Experience Designer and our colleague within the Academic Technology Design Team (ATDT) , recently completed a four-month consultation to help develop hybrid courses for the Leeds School of Business. The collaboration with instructors Tracy Jennings , Jay Waddell , and Steve Lawrence provided insights into the...

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Succeeding in a Flipped Classroom (March 2017 tip)

March 21, 2017

Flipped classrooms are a relatively new concept and many students have not experienced being in one. Professors use flipped classrooms because research shows that an active learning environment facilitates better learning. Flipped classrooms typically require students to watch lectures online and complete readings and quizzes before the class. The lecture...

Hybrid French Language Course Development

Aug. 10, 2015

CU Boulder French language Graduate Part Time Instructors (GPTIs) taught hybrid French language courses this past spring thanks to ASSETT -funded training. The combination of online and in-classroom teaching methods can benefit undergraduate students who are enrolled in foreign language courses. The Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities and...

Groupboard Virtual Whiteboard Connects Long Distance Students in Spanbauer's Class

May 29, 2015

Scott Spanbauer in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department implemented Groupboard Virtual Whiteboard to connect with long distance students. Teaching and Learning Challenge My language teaching techniques are based are the communicative process--­­how human beings negotiate interpersonal communication through speaking, listening, reading and writing, and through this negotiation process,...

3rd Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium

May 6, 2015

Jim Groom Presents at the 2015 ASSETT Teaching with Tech Symposium "Digital Agency in the 21st Century," was the theme at the Third Annual ASSETT Teaching with Technology Symposium in April. The Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mary Washington,...

Academics Online Week

Sept. 26, 2014

Instructors just finished five days of discussion and learning about sharing their research online. ASSETT and University Libraries hosted five Academics Online Week panel and discussion sessions each afternoon during the week of September 15 through 19. They discussed how and whether to publish research online, including in open access...

Success in Sociology Graduate Student Zach Owens's Online Courses

Aug. 8, 2014

Sociology graduate student Zachary Owens has taught at CU Boulder for seven years, and this past spring was his first time teaching an online course. Owens's online students nominated him for an ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award for Sociology 1016, Sex, Gender, and Society. Owens says that for him, teaching...

Annunziata Pugliese: Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language with Technology

Jan. 27, 2014

Imagine your homework assignment is to create an original voice over for a silenced two minute segment of an Italian film. Would you know where to start? Annunziata Pugliese makes use of CU resources to stay current with technology and more effectively reach her students. She has been recognized for...

The MOOC Decision

Jan. 15, 2014

Anybody can take a MOOC but that doesn’t mean that anybody should. If you didn’t already know, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. In this acronym, the operative word is “open” meaning that it is free to anybody. The recent increase in the number of MOOCs has opened up...

Video Coaching in Rural Teacher Preparation by John Hoover

July 15, 2013

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...

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