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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.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning and teaching materials that are licensed for free and adaptable use. These resources provide a foundational understanding of OER, examine how they are distinguished from other "affordable" materials, and highlight benefits for faculty and students.

You've heard about the transformative potential of Open Educational Resources' (OER) use in the classroom but aren't sure where to begin? This collection connects you to the resources and support you need to take that initial step toward exploring the opportunities afforded by OER implementation.

Using a course template can make your Canvas course more functional, easier to navigate, and easier to set up. This collection will help you understand why and how to use Canvas course templates and how to access templates created for you by the CTE.

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.

No matter how you define participation in class discussions, assessing it is fraught. Should you even do it? And if so, how? This collection details a range of approaches for fostering student participation and engagement, whether or not participation itself is graded.

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.