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Research shows that a positive emotional connection to the natural world is directly linked to better mental, physical, cognitive, and spiritual well-being. Get inspired to improve your own and your students' mental health, creativity and cognitive functioning by going outside.

At a time when AI pulls us deeper into the vortex of virtuality, there's a parallel interest in better understanding and leveraging the uniqueness of embodied thinking. Explore how sensory experiences, movement, and interactions with natural and built environments can deepen students’ learning.

There's a lot riding on the first day of a college or university class. The resources in this collection will help you plan a first day that welcomes your students into learning in your course.

This collection of resources will give you ideas and strategies to use within your instructional practice as you welcome students to their online classes. Many of the resources can be applied to in-person courses that use a learning management system.

Alternative grading methods are as diverse as the instructors who implement them. This guide reviews the underlying principles of alternative grading and describes the similarities and differences between the various approaches.

What is “class participation,” really? Why do we want our students to do it, and how will we know when they succeed? This collection will help you answer these questions for yourself, offer some practical frameworks for encouraging participation, and introduce a variety of options for assessing it.

There is much value in the traditional essay, but it’s not always the only, or even the best way to accomplish our teaching goals. Recently, instructors have been experimenting with a wide range of alternatives to the take-home essay, a process that the advent of generative AI has only accelerated.

This collection compiles course materials developed by UVA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty to teach students how to use generative AI for engineering design and analysis. Any examples of student work are shared with students' permission.

ChatGPT can write code and provide instant, detailed explanations of complex topics, enhancing students' understanding and learning experience. Here, we offer resources pertaining to the integration of GenAI in teaching technical courses such as statistics, computer programming, and data science.

Assessment possibilities abound within the current generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) landscape. Here, we share resources highlighting how you might lean into GenAI and leverage it in your assignments.

Discover the capabilities of generative AI in shaping visual and auditory content and how to integrate generative media production into your classroom with essential tools and resources. Then explore the ethical and societal implications specific to AI media and addressing these topics in class.

This collection of resources offers insights on fostering responsible AI integration into your course, while emphasizing the importance of communication and upholding academic integrity in the evolving landscape of AI in education.

Here you'll find a collection of the resources we've been sharing at UVA Darden School of Business to learn more about generative AI (GenAI) and its impact on our MBA curriculum and instruction.

What should you, your colleagues, and your students be mindful of as you engage with generative AI like ChatGPT? This collection provides an overview of a variety of ethical considerations for AI.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked renewed concern about academic integrity.  Here, we recommend resources to help you consider ways to promote academic integrity in your courses, whether you choose to encourage or discourage the use of AI.

While generative AI is not new, the introduction of ChatGPT has instructors feeling a wide range of emotions. What are some practical steps you can take now to prepare for teaching in this changing landscape? Check out these resources for some concrete strategies that you can put into action now.

Instructors and students alike must learn how to navigate the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning. Setting clear expectations is essential. Here we recommend resources to help you communicate about AI with your students.

Writing is at the core of every discipline and profession. Generative AI stands to redefine how we write and what counts as writing, while also challenging how we teach, assign, and assess writing. The following resources provide suggestions for any instructor who assigns writing in their courses.

This collection offers advice to deepen your understanding of AI and program it to your advantage. It features a variety of resources to help you develop and apply more advanced AI skills, from ChatGPT Plus, Medium, and DeepLearning.AI to OpenAI Playground, OpenAI API Reference, and Hugging Face.

Generative AI can both help and hinder instructors and students of statistics. This collection presents a framework for considering how we might use AI in classroom activities, a call for healthy skepticism, and examples of using AI to start and iterate on a programming task.