Collections

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lecturing tends to get a bad rap, but can be made a more effective instructional strategy when done right. Explore ideas for delivering lectures that keep students engaged and learning.

This compact collection describes formative assessment and provides lots of examples that are quickly and easily implemented in any course. The last resource will help you get started if you’re interested in research supporting the efficacy of formative assessment.

If you’re considering alternative grading schemes, these resources shed light on an approach called specifications grading, or specs grading.