Most Recent Collections

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. 

GenAI has had a chaotic impact on classrooms. While we haven't found a magic bullet to solve things, we have developed a number of imperfect tools. The following resources lay out a strategy for layering those imperfect tools and approaches to meet the challenges of this AI moment. These ideas are based in theory and classroom-tested—and aimed at helping faculty make teaching tenable, if not fun, again.

This collection offers research, resources, inspiration, and guidance for implementing classrooms free of digital technologies (including both low- and no-tech strategies). We invite you to explore approaches to teaching and learning that use conversation, collaboration, hands-on activities, reflection, and other analog tools to foster deeper learning and meaningful connection.