Category: SoTL
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SoTL as Public Scholarship
Earlier this year, I spoke with a few groups of faculty at Elon University about academic blogging as public scholarship, especially when thinking about our work in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). The blogosphere invites us, as David Perry acknowledges, “to experiment with form rather than content, to find ways to make an…
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SoTL Immersion
by Joanna Rankin Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (Cummings School of Medicine), University of Calgary Having recently attended the ISSOTL 2017 conference, I have completed the SoTL Immersion that I proposed only a year ago. Dipping my toes into the deep waters of SoTL, this journey took me to the SoTL Commons conference in Savannah…
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What It Looks Like: Experience as a Guide to SoTL Inquiry
by Emma Spooner In this excerpt from her final essay for the SoTL Foundations Program for Graduate Students, Emma Spooner begins to think about developing her own SoTL inquiry. I loved the multidisciplinary approach of discussions of SoTL and the fact that it encourages cross-disciplinary research. I am just beginning my teaching career, but I have been lucky enough…
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SoTL Foundations Reflections on International Graduate Students
by Galicia Blackman In this post, Galicia Blackman shares some of her initial reflections from her final project for the SoTL Foundations Program for Graduate Students, which asks participants to develop a plan for SoTL inquiry. Graduate school has its inherent trials, and studying away from home has an additional set of challenges. My foray into graduate…
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Toward an Ethos of Attribution
Recently while driving home, I was listening to an academic podcast and was struck by a verbal pattern of the hosts. They were referring to others’ ideas, research, and writing without clearly or explicitly identifying these others. Although the episode’s web page includes links to some of these materials as “additional resources,” in nearly 20 minutes, the hosts drew…
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Toward an Ethos of Attribution
Recently while driving home, I was listening to an academic podcast and was struck by a verbal pattern of the hosts. They were referring to others’ ideas, research, and writing without clearly or explicitly identifying these others. Although the episode’s web page includes links to some of these materials as “additional resources,” in nearly 20 minutes, the hosts drew…
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A SoTL Primer
How many times did you introduce SoTL to someone new in the last year, and what did that introduction look like: a definition, a description, a metaphor, a citation, a workshop, a book, a website? I dream of a SoTL primer, a little anthology of key readings that would together provide some coverage, depth, and range of…
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A SoTL Primer
How many times did you introduce SoTL to someone new in the last year, and what did that introduction look like: a definition, a description, a metaphor, a citation, a workshop, a book, a website? I dream of a SoTL primer, a little anthology of key readings that would together provide some coverage, depth, and range of…
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Expanding the Roles of Engagement
One of my strategic principles for SoTL highlights multiple levels of engagement. Of course, we encourage and support our colleagues who are practitioners or “producers” of SoTL, and we now recognize students as engaged in SoTL, not just as learner-participants in projects but also as co-inquirers (Werder & Otis, 2009; Felten, 2013). But there’s another population we don’t often consider in…
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Expanding the Roles of Engagement
One of my strategic principles for SoTL highlights multiple levels of engagement. Of course, we encourage and support our colleagues who are practitioners or “producers” of SoTL, and we now recognize students as engaged in SoTL, not just as learner-participants in projects but also as co-inquirers (Werder & Otis, 2009; Felten, 2013). But there’s another population we don’t often consider in…
Nancy L. Chick 