Active Learning

  • Active Learning Academy logo
    Apply for the Active Learning Academy We are happy to announce the Active Learning Academy will continue for another year! This program is NSF-funded, faculty-driven, and supported by ASSETT and the CTL. The Active Learning
  • Learning by design fellows collaborating
    Image Caption: Pictured left to right - Jennifer Scheib (CivilEng), Colleen Scanlan-Lyons (ENVS), Katherine Lininger, (GEOG), Jay Arehart (CivilEng), Andrew Tan (IPHY), Diana Oliveras (Creative Minds RAP), Donna Louie (Creative Minds RAP) and
  • 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
  • Participants in the Active Learning Academy meet virtually via Zoom
    ASSETT would like to recognize eight faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences who have been accepted to the Learning by Design program. During this unprecedented time of shifting classes to remote learning, life is quite hectic. Yet these
  • Cover of Minds on Fire by Mark Carnes
    Interested in using games and simulations in the classroom? Join in the Gamification Reading Group, a part of ASSETT’s Student Success Innovation Incubator. We are starting out this spring by reading Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games
  • Cover of Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning
    With spring classes behind us and fall a few months away, now’s a perfect time to reflect on the past semester and begin brainstorming for the semester ahead!Join ASSETT’s summer book club to mingle with colleagues while discussing Empower: What
  • tech of month
    In 2015, ASSETT conducted a campus-wide Teaching with Technology survey of faculty from across campus.  A theme that emerged was they wanted strategies and tools for motivating students to prepare in advance. Our Tech of the Month, Perusall,
  • Vilja Hulden
    The problem I grapple with is in the broad realm of critical thinking. More specifically, I want students to experience studying history as a process of reasoning - asking a question, speculating on an answer, looking up information, modifying the
  • Faculty Thinking During Critical Thinking SIG
    This semester, 10 faculty from across the college of Arts and Sciences participated in a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Encouraging and Developing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills. From readings and discussions, to student personas, to
  • Tumblr Web
    Contributed by albyantoniazzi at Flickr Creative Commons.Dr. Jessica Martin wants to hear what her students think.  Martin, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder Instructor of International Affairs, creates class Tumblr and Facebook pages for her students to
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