Collections

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.

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.

How can you help develop students’ AI literacy, even when you’re not an expert in AI? In this collection, you'll find articles and activities that articulate and develop key AI competencies for educators and your students.

Generative artificial intelligence has made longstanding questions about academic integrity more urgent and complex. How does genAI change our understanding of plagiarism? What can or should instructors do to motivate students to complete graded assignments without unauthorized assistance?

Research shows that text-to-speech (TTS) is a prominent use of generative AI by students with disabilities. This collection features ideas for using AI to support students with disabilities in a variety of educational contexts and points to two AI-powered TTS tools.

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.

These annotated examples of specifications grading schemes can serve as models for your own design. Taken together, the examples illustrate the variety of approaches and emphases that are possible within specs grading.

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.