Faculty Resources
Research-Informed Resources for Teaching and Learning
These free resources translate research and faculty development practice into practical guides. They are designed to support thoughtful course design, effective teaching, scholarly inquiry, and reflective practice.

A research-informed guide to designing acourses through Results, Evidence, Experience. CDS supports alignment, assessment, active learning, purposeful technology use, and thoughtful AI integration while keeping consequential academic decisions faculty-controlled.

A comprehensive framework for assessing, measuring, and evaluating teaching effectiveness using multiple sources of evidence. The guide includes classroom observation processes, evidence collection tools, reflective prompts, rubrics, and faculty self-evaluation.

A practical guide for turning questions about teaching and learning into systematic scholarly inquiry. The guide moves from developing a researchable question through literature, methods, evidence, analysis, writing, peer review, and publication.

A reflective guide for transforming teaching beliefs, course design decisions, practices, and evidence into a clear and authentic teaching philosophy. Includes guided reflection, an evidence map, a Builder, and connections to teaching portfolios, annual review, and promotion.