Janet Casagrand

Congratulations to Janet Casagrand!

Dec. 4, 2018

Each year, ASSETT awards the Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award to a faculty member who has been nominated by their peers and students for their commitment to teaching with technology. The 2018 recipient, Dr. Janet Casagrand (IPHY), was recognized for her ongoing pursuit of incorporating technology into the classroom...

Low Stakes Assessments Encourage Heisler's Human Anatomy Students

May 6, 2015

Low stakes assessments encourage students in Integrative Physiology Senior Instructor Ruth Heisler’s Human Anatomy class. Heisler created the assessments through support from the ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Watch her explain her tactic in her video below. Teaching and Learning Challenge Human Anatomy is historically viewed as a memorization course...

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...

Reducing Cognitive Overload in the Anatomy Classroom

April 8, 2013

Image of Fiber Tracts from Heisler's PowerPoint slides https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/aboutUs/index.php “A lot of students come in thinking that anatomy is all about memorization,” says CU Professor Ruth Heisler as she clicks through a series of animated slides that illustrate the structure of the brain with gradually increasing detail. “But it doesn’t...

Mike’s Anatomy: A Custom App Study Guide for IPHY 3415 (Human Anatomy Lab)

March 4, 2010

Managing and keeping track of hundreds of note cards can be a challenge for any student. What if note cards were available on your mobile device? Keeping this concept in mind, Mike Pascoe, a Doctoral Candidate studying Integrative Physiology at University of Colorado, Boulder, is one of the first from...

CU Educational Videos on YouTube

Feb. 17, 2010

YouTube is notorious for being the Internet’s biggest site for bizarre, creative, heartfelt, and hilarious videos. People from all over the world upload their personal videos for the entertainment of others. Everyone from professional video production studios and television networks to average people use YouTube to share their videos with...