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The language you use in the classroom shapes classroom climate and guides students in the hard work of learning. These resources introduce non-content "instructor talk" and instructional moves that help students guide their reasoning, engage with each other intellectually, and feel connected.

As ubiquitous as it is, published research does not show that "active learning is more effective than lecturing." Research consistently demonstrates the very real and consistent finding that combining just about any form of active learning with an exposition lecture improves learning.

Video is an excellent teaching tool and a particularly effective medium for online and flipped learning environments. This collection will help you think through the different components of video to identify the right fit for your teaching context.

Teaching during times of conflict and crisis isn't easy. This collection provides resources and strategies for supporting students and keeping your course on track when events in the world intrude on events in the classroom.

This collection presents guidelines, frameworks, and concrete examples of Open Pedagogy assignments to get you started.

The UVA community is active in Open Education engagement. This collection highlights the initiatives and resources created by our own faculty and staff.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) seeks to eliminate barriers to learning based on research on how people learn. It's an inclusive approach that recognizes student strengths and provides flexibility in how students access and engage with material and show what they know.

Whether you're writing notes in the margin of a paperback book or collaboratively adding comments to a digital document, annotation can be a powerful tool for learning—and thus also for teaching.

Students as Partners is a framework that aims to reposition students as equal contributors to the pedagogical process. The resources we've collected here can help inspire you to more meaningfully involve your students in your teaching and research practices.

Meeting the needs of neurodivergent students—those with ADHD or autism or other ways of processing information that aren't typical—requires thoughtful attention from instructors. The resources in this collection will help you design classes where your students can learn and succeed.

Discipline-based education research (DBER) is the scientific study of teaching and learning via a combination of disciplinary expertise and social sciences methodology. Use this guide for help getting started with DBER. Some resources also cite the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).

Generative AI (GenAI) is already changing the landscape of writing courses in multiple ways. The following resources collectively advocate for a thoughtful integration of GenAI, ensuring your students are well-equipped to harness its benefits ethically and effectively.

High structure course design improves student outcomes via scaffolding students through the learning process with pre-class content acquisition and formative assessment, in-class active learning and problem solving, after-class review and formative assessment, and frequent summative assessment.

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.

This collection explores the intersection of AI and accessibility, highlighting how AI can both support and pose challenges to students with disabilities. It offers practical insights, strategies, and tools for fostering inclusive, accessible learning environments.

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.

Open Educational Resources (OER) contribute to student success by removing barriers of cost and supporting the design of inclusive, accessible, equitable learning experiences.

Open Pedagogy invites students to engage in authorship and curation of open resources, promoting student agency, motivation, collaboration, digital literacy, and open access awareness—allowing students to be creators of knowledge and not just consumers of it.