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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.