Collections
Expertly curated content on a wide range of pedagogically focused topics
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Generative AI in World Languages
Generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges for language teaching and learning. Explore our recommended resources on ChatGPT's potential and learn useful tips for integrating AI in language instruction.
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Creating Assessments with AI
This collection highlights how AI and ChatGPT can be used to develop classroom assessments. The resources provide suggestions for using AI to develop (1) low-stakes formative assessments for gauging learning, and (2) summative assessments used for evaluating students' mastery of course content.
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Generative AI in Nursing
Generative AI can provide nursing educators with customized simulations and scenario-based learning activities that mimic the unpredictability of actual clinical environments, enhancing students' practical skills. Here, we recommend resources to help nursing educators use generative AI.
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What is Generative AI?
To leverage the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for teaching and learning—and minimize negative impacts—it is important to understand how generative AI tools work. Here, we recommend some of the more accessible resources to help get you up to speed.
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Cultivating Engaging Discussions
Discussions are a staple of interactive teaching, but they require careful planning and intentionality to support learning. Explore how to set discussion goals, develop questions that inspire energetic conversation, and show students how to contribute productively to class discussions.
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Reflective Teaching Statements
The Reflective Teaching Statement (RTS) is a short reflective essay that describes an instructor's teaching philosophy, learning objectives, instructional methods, and learning and engagement strategies. This collection contains various resources, from helping you get started writing one to examples from different disciplines.
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The Basics of Trauma-Informed Teaching
This collection introduces you to the principles of a trauma-informed teaching approach.
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Teaching in the Days After a Crisis
What should I say and do with my students in the days after a tragedy? This collection provides practical guidance for instructors teaching in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event, disaster, or crisis.
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How Can I Use Student Evaluations to Improve My Teaching?
Though student evaluations of teaching are confounded by biases, research suggests well-designed and tested evaluation surveys can give you useful data that can help you improve your teaching, particularly when combined with other means of assessment.
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Ideas for Actively Engaging Students
Looking for new or creative ways to actively engage students in and out of class? Regardless of your discipline, preferred instructional strategy, or instructional modality, you’ll find these to be some of the most valuable resources in your teaching toolkit.
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Collecting Midterm Feedback from Students
Soliciting feedback from students before the end of semester is a great way to find out what’s working (and what’s not) while there is still time to make adjustments to your teaching. These resources cover the reasons for and different approaches to collecting midterm feedback.
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Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing
Dive into the different aspects of giving feedback, from the stylistic and procedural components to what and how much to comment on in student writing.
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Designing and Conducting Center Program Assessment
This collection contains resources for educational developers interested in conducting assessment and/or evaluation of their programs.
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How Can Science of Learning Principles Improve Learning?
This collection pulls together research and praxis on the science of learning. Resources give general overviews of the cognitive and affective principles of learning, offer concrete strategies for implementing the principles in the classroom, and will help you stay up to date on current research.
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Supporting Faculty Engagement in SoTL
This collection contains resources for educational developers interested in supporting faculty engagement in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
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Syllabi Rubrics: Tools for Self-assessment and Research
A syllabus rubric can aid individual instructors, as well as departments and researchers, (self-)assess the learning and equity focus of syllabi for course and curriculum improvement.
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How Can You Make Assignments Transparent?
The introductory video to this collection highlights the purposes behind developing transparent assignments, including increases to educational equity. The remaining resources help you get started and offer you concrete ways to continue to improve the transparency of your assignments.
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The Theory and Practice of Peer Feedback
This collection contains resources to guide you in developing and implementing effective peer review assignments.
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Learning Technologies to Boost Student Engagement
Interested in using technology to enhance student learning? Explore available learning technologies that can help improve student engagement, and hear from some UVA instructors on tools that are working for them.
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How Do I Motivate Students to Learn?
This collection pulls together research and theories of human motivation. If you are wondering what motivates students to learn, or want to know how motivation theories can shape your teaching practices, these resources are for you.