Collections

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.

Gathering evidence in SoTL requires careful choices about what kinds of student learning to make visible. This collection offers practical resources—from survey design tips to a compendium of validated scales—to help you plan for and collect the right data to answer your SoTL research questions.

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.

These resources support faculty interested in writing and publishing SoTL, from getting started to preparing a manuscript for submission. They offer practical guidance, examples, and insights into developing a strong SoTL story, finding publication venues, and structuring articles.

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.

The Making Teaching Matter for Civic and Intellectual Life project started in 2024 at UVA's School of Education and Human Development. This collection features essays from students involved in the project with advice for instructors on cultivating civic engagement, ethical decision-making, and more.

This collection features frameworks for understanding AI literacy—including one framework developed here at UVA—as well as classroom activities that support the development of AI literacy in both students and instructors.

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.

In pedagogical partnerships, students and teachers contribute collaboratively “to curricular or pedagogical conceptualization, decision-making, implementation, investigation, or analysis” (Cook-Sather et al., 2014). This collection explores the question: Why do pedagogical partnerships matter?

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.

Are you tired of spending time with students who argue for fractions of points? Do you get frustrated spending your marking time on work that's not even close to what you want? Do you want a more equitable grading approach, maybe one that actually measures student learning outcomes? Specifications grading does that, and more. The resources in this collection include examples of specs grading in practice and reflections by practitioners.

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.

First time teaching your own course? In this collection, you'll find foundational resources to begin your teaching journey. Each resource is from my own bookshelf that I use over and over again!

Do you find that your course learning objectives don't fully capture the goals you and your students have for their learning and development? This collection points to a variety of frameworks for developing more holistic learning, where the humanity of our students is at the center.