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 Chwen Jen Chen and Chee Siong Teh In response to the Covid-19 crisis, many countries, including Malaysia, have resorted to online learning. As instructors of a public university in Malaysia, we experienced the sudden loss of physical interaction opportunities …
By Stefanie Griebel, Angelika Thielsch, Paul Gibson, Tanja Reiffenrath, Timothy Beissinger and Albert Chiteka The igniting idea “Let’s develop a class together once we are back at home” came up while being international graduate students, from Germany and Uganda, at …
By Linda Adler-Kassner, Margarita Safronova, Yasmine Dominguez-Whitehead, Karen Gonzalez, Stephanie Nguyen, and Malaphone Phommasa How did students who expected to start college in person find a sense of place and belonging when their college careers began online during the pandemic? …
By Elizabeth Karcher, Daniel Guberman, Emily Bonem and John Lumkes If you knew something was going to have a tremendous impact on your students, would you do it? Can you imagine a classroom where students are engaged with the material, …
By Kristof Tomej There is a general recognition that learning motivation in an online classroom is quite different than in a traditional classroom. But in order to promote a more comprehensive and evidence-based use of online tools in higher education, …
By Bruce Moghtader, Adriana Briseño-Garzón, and Trish Varao-Sousa One of the key challenges facing institutional adoption of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is creating infrastructure for faculty to methodically inquire into their teaching practices. In our paper, “Faculty and …
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) and its Convenings Committee welcome expressions of interest in hosting the ISSOTL Annual Conference in 2025. ISSOTL works closely with local hosts to organize and run each annual conference. …
Structured as intentional collaborations that bring together ISSOTL members of all ranks and regions in focused inquiry, International Collaborative Writing Groups (ICWGs) embody both the spirit and the work of ISSOTL. The 2023 ISSOTL ICWG-Academic Track will spotlight the multidisciplinary …
By Michael Wong The inspiration for this project stemmed from the countless conversations we had with instructors about how we might make learning science process skills more engaging for students. To our dismay, we learned that many educators struggled with …
By Daphne E. Pedersen, Alena Kubátová, and Rebecca Simmons Despite the attention to increasing DEI in STEM fields, there has been little change in the number of degrees awarded to members of underrepresented groups (e.g., women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals). …