Collections

Conducting a literature review is essential to any SoTL project, but it can be challenging to know where to begin. This collection offers practical tools and strategies to help you search for, organize, and engage with SoTL literature—whether you're using traditional methods, AI tools, or both.

Whether you're new to SoTL co-authorship or refining your approach, this collection offers resources to help you navigate collaborative writing. You'll find resources on authorship expectations, productive workflows, and models for structuring your work together.

Navigating ethical considerations and institutional review board (IRB) processes is a critical part of SoTL. This collection offers practical guidance and examples on what qualifies as research, how to prepare an IRB application, and how to uphold ethical standards in classroom-based research.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic study of teaching and learning made public, such as through publication in an education research journal or at a conference. This collection will introduce you to this type of classroom-based research.

Developing a strong research question is a critical first step in conducting a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. This collection offers guiding frameworks and practical strategies to help you move from a general topic of interest to a well-defined SoTL inquiry.

Instead of asking our students "Any questions?" and hoping for a response, we can use polling technologies to enable and invite all of our students to share their questions and respond to ours. The resources in this collection will help you use these technologies intentionally for student learning.

A professor is not a politician or a preacher. An instructor may know that their teaching is rooted in academic inquiry, not advocacy, but how can they make this clear to students and others? These resources help instructors answer this question and establish themselves as honest brokers.

Discover how compassionate online course design can help you put flexibility, peer support, and motivation at the heart of the online learning experience.

These resources provide an introduction to Standards-Based Grading, an alternative grading philosophy in which students' grades are based primarily on the number of content standards they demonstrate mastery of at any point in the term.

This collection considers the research on and reasons for having students create ePortfolios, blogs, or websites. It also features guidance on using WordPress at UVA, including instructions for integrating the tool into UVACanvas.

Peer observation of teaching need not happen only as part of faculty evaluation processes. Observing each others' classes with the purpose of reflecting and providing feedback to one another benefits instructional quality as well as collegial connection.

We often think of learning as a purely cognitive activity, one characterized by cold intellect and impartiality. This collection offers a counterpoint, presenting theoretical grounding, data, and practical suggestions for centering emotional and motivational aspects of teaching and learning.

Across the disciplines, instructors can support students’ development as citizens and voters. These resources explore ways to incorporate this work in your courses, design engaging activities for civic skills building, and prepare for high-stakes discussions in polarized times.

How can we transform assessment from a summative event to one that actively engages students in learning? This collection explores approaches to assessment that foster self-regulation, reflection, and evaluative judgment, and that support students in becoming life-long learners.

When students receive feedback on their work, what do they do with it? Feedback literacy encompasses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students need to appreciate the value of feedback, engage in feedback processes, and take responsibility for their own learning and development.

What role might generative AI play in helping students meet the learning goals we have for them? This collection features concrete examples of assignments that thoughtfully integrate AI to support student learning.

It can be challenging to manage all the responsibilities associated with teaching, advising students, and engaging in research and service to your department, college, or discipline. Reflecting on your scope of practice can help you clarify your roles and boundaries to help you thrive.

Metacognition—awareness of one's own thought processes—isn't just important for students! These resources introduce you to strategies for incorporating metacognitive awareness into your own teaching in order to become more conscious of students' needs and more responsive in your lesson planning.

This collection is for instructors from all fields—often inspired by their own contemplative practice—who are looking for ways to engage students more wholistically and develop their capacity for awareness, concentration, and insight.

A teaching portfolio is a curated set of materials paired with reflective statements that represents your teaching practices and your development as a teacher. This collection advises you on how to select materials and how to organize them into a compelling narrative about your teaching.