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Welcome Beth Osnes as ASSETT's Faculty Advisor

Aug. 21, 2019

We are excited to welcome Beth Osnes as ASSETT’s new faculty advisor. An Associate Professor of Theatre, Beth brings to the position a long history of innovative and unique projects involving students, technology, and faculty from other disciplines, particularly faculty involved in environmental studies. See, for example, several projects she...

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ASSETT Seeks Graduate Assistant

Aug. 20, 2019

Description Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT) is hiring a Teaching, Learning, and Technology Initiatives Graduate Assistant to support and enhance our faculty learning communities, campus partnerships and grow technology uses around initiatives such as the Faculty Fellows learning community, a Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) pilot,...

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Innovation Incubator Update - August 2019

Aug. 20, 2019

Our Innovation Incubator project is entering a new phase. Last year we began with 47 proposals from 44 individuals across Arts and Sciences, and we ended the year with four groups focused on metacognition and mindfulness, collective multimodal publishing, integrating data science across the curriculum, and providing meaningful experiences for...

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Letter from the Advisor - August 2019

Aug. 13, 2019

Supporting excellence in teaching inspired me to accept this position as the faculty advisor for ASSETT. I believe in the transformative power of the classroom when activated through dynamic teaching methods, many of which can be supported through technology. I have learned a lot through the years from the many...

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ASSETT Is Hiring Undergraduate Students

July 31, 2019

Student Technology Consultants (Undergraduate Student Hourly Position) Are you someone who enjoys learning about new technologies and teaching them to others? ASSETT (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) is looking to hire two Student Technology Consultants (STCs). An STC is an undergraduate student who enjoys learning about and...

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ASSETT Seeks Educational Data Analyst

June 7, 2019

Â鶹ӰԺ the Position The Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT) team, a unit supporting the College of Arts and Sciences within the Office of Information Technology (OIT), is hiring a graduate assistant beginning in the Fall 2019 semester. The assistant will help design and conduct applied research...

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Registration Is Open for 2019 Summer Course Design Workshops

May 3, 2019

ASSETT will hold course design workshops from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm on Friday, May 17, and Tuesday, May 21 . In the morning, participants will be introduced to basic principles of course design that can be applied to any course. Following a catered lunch, each participant will join a...

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2019 LURA Winners Announced

May 2, 2019

The 2019 Linguistics Undergraduate Research Award (LURA) blogs have been posted on the Department of Linguistics website. Professor Kira Hall developed the LURA program while participating in the 2017-18 ASSETT Faculty Fellows cohort . The 17 students honored were nominated for innovative research conducted in an undergraduate linguistics class during...

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Summer Book Club Kicks Off May 23!

May 2, 2019

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 Happens When Students Own Their Learning by John Spencer...

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ASSETT Innovation Incubator Underway

April 18, 2019

This semester we are trying something unique in ASSETT. We have plans underway to support four innovative projects for three years that are designed to improve teaching with technologies. We’re calling this our Innovation Incubator. As we looked across the campus we saw so many change initiatives underway that it...

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