Resources Overview

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Active Learning

Think-Pair-Share

Harvey, Ashley (2025). Tired of Awkward Silences? Upgrade your Think-Pair-Share. Faculty Focus.

Kent State University Center for Teaching and Learning. Think, Pair, Share.

AI

Coulter Faculty Commons (2023): AI Chatbots FAQ.

AAC&U. Leading Through Disruption: Higher Education Executives Assess AI’s Impacts on Teaching and Learning.

The report “Leading Through Disruption” presents findings from a survey of 337 higher education leaders on the current and future impacts of generative AI in teaching and learning. Conducted by AAC&U and Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, it explores the challenges, opportunities, and transformative effects of AI on campuses nationwide.

Toor, Rachel (2025). Why Should Faculty Bother With AI? Inside Higher Ed.

Advice Guides for the Chronicle of Higher Education

Includes “evergreens” like How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, How to Be a Better Online Teacher, or How to Create a Syllabus.

Advice Guides Overview

Course Design

Canvas Course Design Checklist

Penn State, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Flexible Instruction Teaching Guide.

Self-paced teaching guide offering materials and resources from best practices frot teaching, to using Canvas, and engaging students with activities and assessments.

Short Courses

UNC Charlotte Center for Teaching and Learning. Short Courses / Part-of-Term Courses: Condensing Course Content.

Supporting First-Gen Students

Ezarik, Melissa (2022). 9 Ways to Elevate First-Generation Student Support. Inside Higher Ed.

UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness (2023). How does being a First-Gen faculty member change the way you teach?

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum, including a link to the Hidden Curriculum Design Thinking Worksheet.

Collins, Terence. For Openers… an Inclusive Syllabus.

Academic Integrity – Dean of Students

Syllabus Resources

Teaching Online

Regular & Substantive Interaction – Instructor presence and student/instructor interactions are key online course elements that foster student motivation, persistence, and success. In line with these findings, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) requires all online courses for which students use Title IV funds include regular and substantive interaction (RSI) between students and instructors.