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Whether you're new to SoTL co-authorship or refining your approach, this collection offers resources to help you navigate collaborative writing. You'll find resources on authorship expectations, productive workflows, and models for structuring your work together.

Discover how compassionate online course design can help you put flexibility, peer support, and motivation at the heart of the online learning experience.

Conducting a literature review is essential to any SoTL project, but it can be challenging to know where to begin. This collection offers practical tools and strategies to help you search for, organize, and engage with SoTL literature—whether you're using traditional methods, AI tools, or both.

Developing a strong research question is a critical first step in conducting a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. This collection offers guiding frameworks and practical strategies to help you move from a general topic of interest to a well-defined SoTL inquiry.

It can be challenging to manage all the responsibilities associated with teaching, advising students, and engaging in research and service to your department, college, or discipline. Reflecting on your scope of practice can help you clarify your roles and boundaries to help you thrive.

A collaborative classroom doesn’t happen by accident; it's created by design. Use these tools to lower resistance, foster trust, and help students learn with one another rather than just from you.

This collection provides introductory resources for new graduate teaching assistants in a variety of roles, including facilitating discussion or lab sections, holding office hours and review sessions, giving feedback to students, and grading student work.

Teaching with others can enrich student learning and instructor joy, but the challenge of aligning vision and methods may surprise new co-teachers. Use the resources here to support smoother collaborative teaching. Note: we use 'co-teaching' to mean shared teaching responsibilities.

If you're interested in how you can leverage principles of transparency, sense of belonging, and accessibility to enhance your course in Canvas, check out the resources in this collection! We provide definitions for these concepts and include suggestions for small, incremental changes as well as larger, structural changes.

Instead of asking our students "Any questions?" and hoping for a response, we can use polling technologies to enable and invite all of our students to share their questions and respond to ours. The resources in this collection will help you use these technologies intentionally for student learning.

The Learning Assistant (LA) model is a powerful, evidence-informed approach that embeds trained undergraduates into classrooms to support active learning, guide group work, and provide peer mentorship. In this collection are research and guides highlighting improved outcomes and engagement.

Navigating ethical considerations and institutional review board (IRB) processes is a critical part of SoTL. This collection offers practical guidance and examples on what qualifies as research, how to prepare an IRB application, and how to uphold ethical standards in classroom-based research.

A reflective teaching statement is a short narrative that describes your beliefs, goals, and practices regarding teaching and learning in your field. This collection offers guidelines for writing teaching statements, examples from several disciplines, and a rubric to assess your teaching statement.

Reflection is valued in teaching practice, so it should come as no surprise that reflective writing is valued in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Learn more about reflective writing in SoTL and peruse a few of my favorite examples from a range of approaches and perspectives.

These resources provide an introduction to Standards-Based Grading, an alternative grading philosophy in which students' grades are based primarily on the number of content standards they demonstrate mastery of at any point in the term.

A professor is not a politician or a preacher. An instructor may know that their teaching is rooted in academic inquiry, not advocacy, but how can they make this clear to students and others? These resources help instructors answer this question and establish themselves as honest brokers.

A teaching portfolio is a curated set of materials paired with reflective statements that represents your teaching practices and your development as a teacher. This collection advises you on how to select materials and how to organize them into a compelling narrative about your teaching.

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic study of teaching and learning made public, such as through publication in an education research journal or at a conference. This collection will introduce you to this type of classroom-based research.