The ISSOTL Board of Directors is now accepting applications for four Co-Facilitators of the ISSOTL Fellows Program. ISSOTL Fellows Co-Facilitators will support the logistical and intellectual work of the two current cohorts of ISSOTL Fellows — the 2019 ISSOTL Fellows …
By Nolan N. Bett, Costanza Piccolo, Nathan D. Roberson, A. James Charbonneau and Christopher J. Addison Teaching undergraduate students what science is and how it operates is not a simple task. At the post-secondary level, science courses typically focus on …
By Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Jessie L. Moore and Amy Allocco How did the COVID-19 pandemic change mentoring relationships on college campuses? Given the value placed on mentoring on our campus, we conducted a multi-method study to examine faculty, staff, and students’ …
By Joy Camarao and Cari Din Our study is part of a larger, three-year SoTL reform project aimed at enriching teaching and learning in laboratory-based exercise physiology courses. We set out to understand how science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) teaching …
Applications are due March 24, 2023. The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) invites applications for group participants for the Academic track of its International Collaborative Writing Group (ICWG) initiative. Read more about this track on ISSOTL’s …
By Chwen Jen CHEN (cjchen@unimas.my) & Chee Siong TEH (csteh@unimas.my), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak With the emergence of generative AI chatbots, a new wave of technological disruption is revolutionizing education. Generative AI chatbots are gaining rapid popularity in education due to …
By Faye Halpern The immediate occasion for “The Morphology of the SoTL Article” was my curiosity about why, when I listen to many people in a row give talks about teaching and learning, I often feel dispirited. It was perplexing …
By Ellen M. Whitehead Amidst the many challenges to higher education wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, I began to wrestle with one question in particular: How lenient should I be with my students in terms of deadlines and other class …
By Dr. Radhika Jaidev, Centre for Communication Skills, Singapore Institute of Technology I teach at a university in Singapore that brands itself as a university of applied learning and research. The university offers undergraduate degree programmes in engineering, food sciences, …
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a growing international organization dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and learning, needs leaders who are original thinkers, hard workers, and esteemed colleagues in the profession. ISSOTL’s representatives establish new …
By Dan Trowsdale and Alison McKay A few years ago, we became interested in how design and engineering processes might be applied in the creation of new course designs. At that time, we were both involved in the development of …