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  • Student Fellows staffing an information booth at the 2018 ATDT Showcase
    Do you ever wonder what kinds of projects the ASSETT team and their colleagues in the Academic Technology and Design Team (ATDT) undertake?  On March 13, the ATDT hosted its first showcase to share its work with faculty, staff, and students
  • Symposium participants discuss Universal Design for Learning
    Faculty and staff representing a wide range of academic programs and campus offices examined the intersections of technology, design thinking, and pedagogy design at ASSETT’s 2018 Teaching with Technology Symposium on April 9.The event featured an “
  • Melanie Cooper presents to the Faculty Fellows
    Instructors frequently grapple with questions about the impact of their teaching: What are students learning? And how well can they apply their new knowledge and skills outside the classroom? These perennial concerns are the focus of the Three-
  • Now hiring sign
    We're hiring two graduate assistants for the 2018-19 academic year.
  • tips n tricks
    Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for curriculum design that fosters an inclusive learning environment by ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to learn (National Center on Universal Design for Learning).At its core,
  • 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,
  • Letters from Advisor
    I hope you’re having a great semester filled with engagement, inquiry, and aha moments! It’s also that time of year when everyone’s (physically and mentally) preparing to take off for a well-deserved Spring Break. So, before heading out, I wanted to
  • Andy martin
    Dear Colleagues—The 2018 ASSETT Faculty Fellows' program is in full swing. The self-reported network of interactions centered around teaching with others on campus suggests the new cohort significantly increased the breadth and depth of connectivity
  • tips n tricks
    Using Video Tutorials in the ClassroomASSETT recently conducted a meta-analysis of surveys, interviews, observations, and focus group findings from past projects and found interesting data points about the use of video tutorials in the classroom. In
  • tech of month
    Lynda.com is an online library of thousands of high-quality video tutorials, created by industry professionals teaching a wide variety of software tools and skills. The courses are on-demand, so you can start and stop the tutorials and complete
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