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As a part of the CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) team through ASSETT’s Innovative Incubator, I am taking a deep dive into student publishing through the creation of an Open Educational Resource (OER). CAMPP is investigating opportunities to establish a peer-to-peer support environment for faculty and students by...

ASSETT is pleased to welcome Olivia H. Marrese to our team! Olivia is ASSETT’s Teaching, Learning, and Technology Initiatives Coordinator and a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics. She has eight years of teaching experience in higher education, in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Spanish and...

BuffsCreate has a new website design, featuring an FAQ to get started, a glossary of terms for quick reference, and an ever-growing library of tutorials and help documentation. The community showcase features websites designed through BuffsCreate for added inspiration, ranging from research profiles to online archives. Buffscreate.net is a space...

Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual watch part of the CODED BIAS documentary and Q&A with director Shalani Kantayya on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 7:00-8:30pm Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy...

Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual keynote by Kevin Roose on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 2:30-3:30pm This event is co-sponsored by ASSETT and the President’s Fund for the Humanities. Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist...

Congratulations to David Paradis, winner of this year’s ASSETT Excellence in Teaching with Technology award! Since ASSETT’s early days, David has taken advantage of almost all of ASSETT’s professional development offerings, including participating in the 2017-18 Faculty Fellows cohort and the current Innovation Incubator Student Success Team . Through these...

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...