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What if a criterion for effective teaching was assessing how much energy was created in the room? It may be that for the teaching of African Dance, that could be just the thing. In community with all departments within the College of Arts & Sciences, we in the Department of...

Join ASSETT Innovation Incubator team member, Michaele Ferguson for an introduction to Reacting to the Past, an immersive role-playing pedagogy in which students develop skills in critical thinking, persuasive writing, public speaking, leadership, and teamwork while wrestling with primary texts and important ideas. Start by playing a mini-game, set at...

ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science Team Receives National Science Foundation Award for their Project, CODE:SWITCH (Collaborative Data Science Education: Statistics With Integration of Technology, Computing, and the Humanities)

Congratulations to the Student Success Innovation Incubator team for being a recipient of the 2021 President’s Fund for the Humanities! Their proposal, Reenvisioning the Future of the Humanities Through the Reacting to the Past Pedagogy seeks to promote a system-wide inquiry of thought focused on teaching and learning in the...

Kae Novak On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Student Success team will host instructional designer, immersive environment researcher and gamer, Kae Novak, to present on Creating an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) for your classroom. From escape rooms to solving mysteries, ARGs bring fun and levity to learning...

This summer, the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Metacognition + Well-Being team will beta-test a pilot Canvas module on exam preparation and test-taking strategies. While current testing is focused on the student experience, including their perceptions of the value and relevance of the module content, the team needs to gather faculty perspectives...

Please join ASSETT in celebrating three members of the Innovation Incubator who were recently recognized for their positive contributions to our campus community! CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing members Nikki Jobin (Sewall RAP) and Beth Osnes (Theatre and Dance) were each selected for a CU Boulder 2021 Open...

The ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team’s new Interdisciplinary Data Science for All course (AHUM 1825) is open for enrollment for fall 2021! AHUM 1825 is a hands-on course designed to teach students the basics of computational inquiry while also developing a critical understanding of the assumptions, risks, and...

Pictured left to right: Joy Adams(ASSETT), Amanda McAndrew (ASSETT), Heidi Loshbaugh(QTI), Leilani Arthurs (GEOL), Rai Farrelly (LING), Christine MacDonald (PWR), Pam Harvey (MCDB), Beth Osnes (ASSETT/THRD), Janet Donovan (PSCI), Mary Long (SPAN), Joe Timmer (MATH), Lorraine Baynard de Volo (WMST), Heather Demerest (PHIL), Karen Gebhardt (ECON), Karen Bailey (ENVS). New...

Despite the threats and uncertainties in 2020, ASSETT’s support helped the Active Learning Academy (ALA) run smoothly and brought an additional informed perspective to our new modality of teaching. The faculty fellows remained steadfast in their ongoing professional development as STEM educators and unwavering in their commitment to high quality...