New from the UVA Teaching Hub

One of my roles at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence is supporting the growth of the CTE's Teaching Hub. The Teaching Hub features collections of resources on a variety of teaching and learning topics, with each collection curated by someone with expertise in that topic. The goal isn't to build all the great resources, but to point to the really good ones that are already out there, with recommendations like the staff picks at a good bookstore.

A lot of my Teaching Hub work has been recruiting new curators for the site who are external to the University of Virginia. This week, however, I've been focused on helping my Center for Teaching Excellence colleagues build out new collections. This past Monday we held a writing retreat, and that has led to nine(!) new Teaching Hub collections! If you have any interest in any of the following topics, I suggest you check out the collections to see what resources my fantastic colleagues recommended.

• ​Collaborative Writing in SoTL by Jess Taggart and Lindsay Wheeler
• ​Developing SoTL Research Questions by Jess Taggart and Lindsay Wheeler
• ​Getting Started as a Graduate Teaching Assistant by Elizabeth Dickens
• ​Getting Started with Team Teaching by Lynn Mandeltort
• ​In-Class Polling for Student Engagement by me!
• ​Navigating SoTL Ethics and the IRB by Jess Taggart and Lindsay Wheeler
• ​Reflective Teaching Statements by Adriana Streifer
• ​Teaching Portfolios by Adriana Streifer
• ​What Is SoTL? by Jess Taggart

You'll notice that four of the new collections explore aspects of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Jess and Lindsay have built these collections to support the SoTL work they're doing at the university. I'm glad that the Teaching Hub provides a platform for them to share that internal work with the wider higher education community. And with those four new SoTL collections, we've launched a SoTL gallery on the site, making it easy to find all the Teaching Hub collections about SoTL.

I managed to curate one collection this week focused on a topic near and dear to my professional heart: teaching with classroom response systems. I wrote a book on this topic back in 2009, and interest in classroom polling has increased since Zoom teaching made multiple-choice polls so easy to access. This new collection, "In-Class Polling for Student Engagement," features some classic material from me, along with some newer examples and ideas--basically the things I would include in a second edition of the book were I to write it!

These nine new collections bring the total number of collections on the Teaching Hub to 101. If you're in need of inspiration or resources for some teaching and learning topic, you might check the Teaching Hub first! There's a good chance we'll have a collection to help you out.

What Can We Expect from the "AI University"?

On the most recent episode of the Intentional Teaching podcast, my guests Betsy Barre, Bryan Dewsbury, and Emily Donahoe discussed three recent op-eds addressing challenges facing higher ed here in 2025. One of those essays was "Are You Ready for the AI University?" by Scott Latham. The author made a number of provocative predictions about the future of AI in higher ed, including “AI-taught courses will become the dominant paradigm" and "I can think of no plausible scenario in which there will be an equal number of faculty members in 10 years as there are today." On the podcast, my guests and I responded to some of these predictions with a "take it" or "leave it" as part of a productive discussion of the piece.

I had a few more thoughts about the potential "AI University" as Latham pictures it, so I sat down and recorded them for a bonus episode of the podcast that I titled "What Can We Expect from the 'AI University'?" This bonus episode, like others I've produced in the past, is only available to podcast subscribers. My podcast host, Buzzsprout, makes it easy to become a subscriber, which involves contributing $3 US each month to support the show (and this newsletter). So if that bonus episode sounds interesting, follow one of those links to become a subscriber and listen.

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