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 …
By Mick Healey and Ruth L. Healey “I can’t tell you how much I love this article! What a wonderful combination of pragmatic guidance and thoughtful argumentation about the SoTL lit review/search.” Nancy Chick, 20 March 2022, former editor of TLI …
By Briony Supple and James G.R. Cronin Carl Honoré coined the term “the slow movement” back in 2005; the antithesis, he argued, of all that is modern: fast-food, fast-information, fast-fashion, and so on. Honore’s argument is that this fast way …
By Jennifer Hill, Kathy Berlin, Julia Choate, Lisa Cravens-Brown, Lisa McKendrick-Calder, Susan Smith The research presented in this paper emerged from the 2019 ISSOTL International Collaborative Writing Group (ICWG) initiative that took place in Atlanta, USA. ICWGs bring together faculty, …
By Earle Abrahamson, University of Hertfordshire The practice of SoTL can, at times, appear to unfold in isolation. There is a covert silence that punctuates many SoTL landscapes. This occurs potentially due to fear of identifying with SoTL, distraction from …
Due to issues with the original form, we have extended the deadline until February 17, 2023. We especially welcome applications from candidates outside of North America because we hope to have group leaders from a range of ISSOTL regions. We …
By Henk Huijser (Queensland University of Technology – h.huijser@qut.edu.au), Janel Seeley (University of Wyoming) & James Cronin (University College Cork) Inspired by a keynote by Nancy Chick at the 2019 ISSOTL Conference, where she called for us to find more …
