By Marisa V. Cervantes & Alana R. Inlow Our work on this paper started with a hallway conversation about the frustrations we were facing as graduate student instructors (GSI) and the lack of support for inclusive, anti-racist teaching practices. We …
By Erin B. Styles, University of Toronto (erin.styles@utoronto.ca) and Elizabeth J. Polvi, University of Calgary (elizabeth.polvi@ucalgary.ca) Recognizing that the last session of class at the end of the term is often not very materially productive, we have searched for a …
By Susan Cox, Kate Jongbloed, and Charlyn Black Have you ever finished teaching a class and wondered what students “took away” in terms of their learning? And whether your pedagogic approach was effective? These questions were the stimulus for our …
By Melissa Hills, MacEwan University, Melissa.Hills@MacEwan.ca and Kim Peacock, NorQuest College, Kim.Peacock@NorQuest.ca We define flexible deadline policies as those that allow all students in a course some degree of freedom over when they submit an assignment, without consequences that could …
By Anna Piotti, Elizabeth DeFelice, and Carrie Jackson The Pennsylvania State University It was the end of a Zoom meeting, at the end of a long day, in the middle of the very challenging Fall 2020 semester when Elizabeth sighed, …
By Ann M. Gansemer-Topf, Sara Marcketti, Paul Hengesteg, and Steven A. Freeman In Spring 2019, I had the opportunity to coordinate the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars program at Iowa State University. The program was a cohort-based program …
By Earle D. Abrahamson Teaching and Learning Inquiry (TLI) has become synonymous with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), as a vehicle to inspire discussion, publish meaningful research, and enable contribution to SoTL debates. In their inaugural edition of …
The Emerging Scholars Fund invites currently registered post-secondary students to apply for a conference fee waiver to attend the ISSOTL conference. Successful applicants will share in the ISSOTL discourse by actively participating in the conference activities. This includes attending the …
By Eric Hall and Kristina Meinking In our essay, we explore how a group of high-achieving students described their experience of a course that featured a variation of ungrading. Our journey to this project was long and winding. Born from …
By Brianna L. Kennedy, PhD As a former secondary school teacher and current teacher educator and teacher in higher education, I place a high value on teaching well. I have learned many things about teaching over the years, through both …