Most Recent Collections

Can a syllabus do more than convey policies and schedules? This collection includes our favorite examples of syllabi that embrace creative, fun, or otherwise unconventional interpretations of the syllabus genre while still fulfilling the basic roles of syllabi. It ends with advice and commentary about adding visual (and other) elements to your syllabus.

These annotated examples of specifications grading schemes can serve as models for your own design. Taken together, the examples illustrate the variety of approaches and emphases that are possible within specs grading.

A syllabus is often a student’s first impression of a course and its instructor. This collection highlights examples of syllabi that establish a tone of care, inclusion, and concern for student wellbeing from the outset. It also includes a blog post exploring the impact of syllabus language and a template designed to help instructors get started creating their own student-centered syllabus.

Accessible teaching involves more than making "reasonable accommodations" requested by individual students with disabilities. Where accommodations are reactive and targeted to individuals, accessibility is proactive and can affect many students. These resources give you a "behind-the-scenes" look at the impacts that accessibility can have on students in real-world ways you might not otherwise understand or recognize.

These resources help faculty recognize when teaching work and institutional conditions are exceeding sustainable boundaries and negatively affecting their well-being.

The resources in this collection point toward sustainable strategies faculty can adopt to reduce the cognitive, emotional, and affective loads of teaching, whether or not their institutions are making structural changes to reduce faculty burnout.

Learning science offers more ways to boost learning than ever before. Yet students often don’t know about, or choose not to use, strategies for effective studying. Here you'll find resources for getting students to take learning strategies to heart, with a focus on attention and memory. 

This collection features resources related to the intersection of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the ever-changing landscape of generative AI.

Undergraduate research offers significant developmental opportunities for students but experiences are often limited to lab-based projects for advanced students. CUREs offer the possibility of the developmental experiences of research at scale and for all types of students.

Student-faculty trust not only contributes to student well-being; it also creates the safety needed for students to take intellectual risks and motivates them to work harder. This collection urges us to counter generative AI and other forces that (mostly inadvertently) are breeding mistrust and offers practical ideas for cultivating and sustaining our students’ trust.