Tag: SoTL
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SoTL Spotlight: A Great Conference in Banff
originally posted Nov 11, 2013, on Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching blog I’m on a plane from Calgary back to Nashville by way of Salt Lake City, reflecting on a fabulous conference, the 2013 Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) sponsored by Mount Royal University’s Institute for SoTL. I’m trying to identify what made it…
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Reflections on the 2012 ISSOTL Conference
originally posted Oct 30, 2012, on Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching blog I just returned from the ninth annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)—this year in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I’ve attended every ISSOTL conference, and this was among the best. But of this year’s plenaries, posters, and…
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SoTL Spotlight: What’s In It for Me?
originally posted June 5, 2012, on Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching blog In my last “SoTL Spotlight,” I mentioned Harvard University’s new $40 million grant dedicated to teaching and learning initiatives, including a symposium, a consortium, some classroom redesign, and a grant program for projects to improve teaching and learning on campus. Over 250 proposals were…
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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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The SoTL Lit Review, The SoTL Librarian
I can’t remember the last time I got so many queries about an event being recorded, repeated, or documented in some way. TLI reviewers aren’t the only ones aware of the need for stronger lit reviews in SoTL work: it’s one of the main sources of anxiety in SoTL
Nancy L. Chick 