Collections

This collection features resources related to the intersection of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the ever-changing landscape of generative AI.

Student-faculty trust not only contributes to student well-being; it also creates the safety needed for students to take intellectual risks and motivates them to work harder. This collection urges us to counter generative AI and other forces that (mostly inadvertently) are breeding mistrust and offers practical ideas for cultivating and sustaining our students’ trust. 

The resources in this collection point toward sustainable strategies faculty can adopt to reduce the cognitive, emotional, and affective loads of teaching, whether or not their institutions are making structural changes to reduce faculty burnout.

These resources help faculty recognize when teaching work and institutional conditions are exceeding sustainable boundaries and negatively affecting their well-being.

Undergraduate research offers significant developmental opportunities for students but experiences are often limited to lab-based projects for advanced students. CUREs offer the possibility of the developmental experiences of research at scale and for all types of students.

A syllabus is often a student’s first impression of a course and its instructor. This collection highlights examples of syllabi that establish a tone of care, inclusion, and concern for student wellbeing from the outset. It also includes a blog post exploring the impact of syllabus language and a template designed to help instructors get started creating their own student-centered syllabus.

Students appreciate clear guidance on which uses of generative AI are permitted in coursework, if any, and which are prohibited. The syllabus statements in this collection are examples that instructors can use as they set and communicate boundaries for student AI use that align with their course goals and teaching values.

Learning science offers more ways to boost learning than ever before. Yet students often don’t know about, or choose not to use, strategies for effective studying. Here you'll find resources for getting students to take learning strategies to heart, with a focus on attention and memory. 

Can a syllabus do more than convey policies and schedules? This collection includes our favorite examples of syllabi that embrace creative, fun, or otherwise unconventional interpretations of the syllabus genre while still fulfilling the basic roles of syllabi. It ends with advice and commentary about adding visual (and other) elements to your syllabus.

This collection provides an overview of qualitative analysis, guidance for selecting and conducting qualitative analysis, including thematic analysis and constant comparative analysis, and the role of validity and reliability in qualitative research.

Effective data management is essential to your SoTL project’s organization, reproducibility, and meaningful dissemination of findings. This collection provides guidance and practical tools for organizing your data, creating documentation, and avoiding common pitfalls.

Analyzing SoTL data requires the appropriate methods. This collection provides guidance for quantitative analysis, including tools for selecting statistical tests, step-by-step instructions for conducting analyses, and examples from common SoTL study designs.

The default behaviors of popular AI chatbots don't always align with our teaching goals. This collection explores approaches to designing AI chatbots for particular pedagogical purposes.

The ability to have productive and respectful discourse with folks holding different values, identities, and opinions is critical for a functioning democracy, but challenging to foster. This collection supports instructors preparing students to engage across differences. 

Shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public, Stephen Marche rang the death knell for the college essay. Is the essay as a genre actually dead, and if so, what will we, as instructors, create in its aftermath? This collection explores possible ways to revive and reimagine the essay for the 21st-century classroom. 

The resources here explore strategies for engaging students in discussion and active learning in a synchronous online class session. Topics include preparing students for live sessions, facilitating in inclusive and accessible ways, and situating a synchronous session in a bigger course design.

Are fostering civil discourse and dialogue across difference teaching goals for you? Don't wait until potentially controversial topics emerge and hope for the best. Start cultivating community on day 1 by using some of the activities described in this collection.

Generative AI has brought new urgency to longstanding assessment challenges. How do we grade individual contributors within a collaboration? What belongs to the human, and what to the technology? This collection offers new approaches to assessing human-AI collaboration in educational settings.

Faculty are adapting to AI in complex ways beyond simple adoption or resistance. This collection provides educational leaders with frameworks to understand faculty decision-making, identify change barriers, and facilitate inclusive AI integration conversations.

Designing a SoTL study requires thoughtful decisions about study design, methods, and disciplinary approaches to inquiry. This collection introduces a range of accessible resources to help you choose a study design that aligns with your research questions and scholarly goals.