At ISSOTL22 in Kelowna, we shared the notion that, although many SoTL projects are designed to demonstrate “what works,” there is much to learn about what doesn’t work and other forms of failure in SoTL. Participants in the standing-room-only room …
SoTL’s Grand Challenges were determined following five years of global outreach, including three anonymous international surveys with thematic analyses, a Delphi process that provided feedback from twelve global SoTL experts on a group of eleven possible grand challenges, and a …
Post-secondary educators help students develop foundational skills needed for academicand career success. This includes fostering the information literacy (IL) skills, such ascritical reading, evidence gathering, and knowledge synthesis, needed for students toparticipate in scholarly and disciplinary conversations. Most post-secondary educators …
By Ekua Mensimah Thompson Kwaffo Partaking in SoTL-related research grants me the privilege to contribute to the collectiveknowledge of humanity. In this blog, I reflect on my journey into the world of Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning (SoTL) and what this …
As educators within Human Movement Sciences (HMS) at a South African tertiary institution, there’s a distinct set of challenges and opportunities as we shape the trajectory of this dynamic discipline. Our journey to craft an impactful poster, “SoTL in Human …
Technical Consultant, Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The Journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning The ISSOTL Publications Committee seeks applications for a technical consultant for Teaching & Learning Inquiry (TLI). TLI has established itself as …
By Jennifer Löfgreen Like most of us in SoTL, I came to the field with research training from a discipline. Mydiscipline was chemistry. I was trained to produce new knowledge using controlled systems inwhich I could design and run experiments, …
By Irma Meijerman, Femke Kirschner and Frans Prins Many faculty members struggle with how to start with SoTL, especially at research-intensive universities. What challenges do they face? What hurdles are there to be taken?But mainly, how can we support those …
By Xena Cupido1, Kibashni Naidoo2, Nalini Chitanand3, Jo-Anne Vorster4 1Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2University of Johannesburg 3Durban University of Technology 4Rhodes University Emergence and growth South Africa has a rich history with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), ranging …
By Cherie Woolmer, Nattalia Godbold, Isabel Treanor, Natalie McCray, Ketevan Kupatadze, Peter Felten and Catherine Bovill As a group of students and faculty, we wanted to explore the real experiences of what it’s liketo “do” partnership, which pushed beyond some …
