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CavEd program lets Hoos design and teach their own courses

October 13, 2025

CTE Associate Director Adriana Streifer discusses the CavEd seminar, a one-credit class that she teaches and students must take before applying to the CavEd program to teach and design their own courses.

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Teaching Students When (Not) to Use AI

October 2, 2025

What happens when we stop using a skill and allow technology to do it for us? How do we help students understand the importance of committing themselves to the hard work of learning? CTE Associate Director Derek Bruff shares his thoughts in this Designed for Learning podcast episode.

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A&S’s Accessible Design Coordinator and the CTE

July 18, 2025

A&S’s Accessible Design Coordinator Lori Hostetler and CTE Director Michael Palmer talk about the power of course design institutes (CDIs), like the ones hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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Should College Graduates Be AI Literate?

April 3, 2025

CTE Director Michael Palmer talks about how UVA is working to create a space in which schools and departments that want to gain AI literacy can do so.

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CTE Director Publishes Book on CDIs

February 17, 2025

CTE Director Michael Palmer and his coauthors publish the book Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes: A Model for Change. It is a playbook providing educational developers with the critical background knowledge and vetted direction needed to launch or refine their own CDIs.