By Vincent C.A. Crone and Merel van Goch As educators in the humanities, we often question whether we are truly meeting our students’ needs in teaching, particularly when it comes to what may be our most important research tool: critical …
By Maria Gallardo-Williams (North Carolina State University, mtgallar@ncsu.edu) and Nancy Chick (Rollins College, nchick@rollins.edu) In the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), we often find ourselves exploring research practices, methodologies, and frameworks to enhance teaching. But sometimes, we’re called to …
We are pleased to announce that, following our recent Annual Business Meeting at ISSOTL24, it has been approved that new regions—Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa—will be formally represented in our organization. This decision reflects our …
By Jessie Durk, Amy Smith, Nabihah Rahman, and Rebekah Christie For many students, particularly those studying math or science disciplines, such as physics, high-stakes written exams carry a lot of importance, not just for access and participation but also for …
By Melanie Hamilton and Brett McCollum We started this conversation sitting in comfy chairs at the Banff Park Lodge during Mount Royal University’s 2022 Symposium for SoTL. For some reason over a cup of coffee, we were reflecting on how …
TLI’s Going Public Reviews Call for Reviewers & Artefacts Teaching and Learning Inquiry would like to share a new opportunity for the SoTL community to review the diverse ways we ‘go public’ with our SoTL work. Going Public Reviews (500 …
By Kristina Meinking and Eric Hall We designed the first iteration of our co-taught course “Beauty and the Brain” throughout the 2017–2018 academic year and brought to that framework an attentiveness to alternative assessment, the close ties between teaching and …
By Heather Garcia and Mary Ellen Dello Stritto Working in a centralized online learning unit at Oregon State University’s Ecampus, we partner with instructors from many different disciplines. In our roles supporting both the scholarship of online teaching and learning …
By Ximena D. Burgin, Mayra C. Daniel, Sheila S. Coli, Leslie Matuszewich This research offers suggestions for helping teaching assistants (TAs) to prepare for their role in higher education. Differences in TAs’ knowledge of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) can lead …
By Stephanie May de Montigny I began this research in the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program because, while I had seen my students develop their empathy in my community engagement courses, I wanted to help them better recognize and …