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Writing is at the core of every discipline and profession. Generative AI stands to redefine how we write and what counts as writing, while also challenging how we teach, assign, and assess writing. The following resources provide suggestions for any instructor who assigns writing in their courses.

This collection offers advice to deepen your understanding of AI and program it to your advantage. It features a variety of resources to help you develop and apply more advanced AI skills, from ChatGPT Plus, Medium, and DeepLearning.AI to OpenAI Playground, OpenAI API Reference, and Hugging Face.

Generative AI can both help and hinder instructors and students of statistics. This collection presents a framework for considering how we might use AI in classroom activities, a call for healthy skepticism, and examples of using AI to start and iterate on a programming task.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This collection introduces you to the principles of a trauma-informed teaching approach.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This collection contains resources for educational developers interested in conducting assessment and/or evaluation of their programs.

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.

This collection contains resources for educational developers interested in supporting faculty engagement in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

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.

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.

This collection contains resources to guide you in developing and implementing effective peer review assignments.