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By Claire Hamshire, Mimi Benjamin and Alan Soong Swee Kit This publication stems from a three-year study supported by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University as part of their research seminar series to examine conditions for meaningful learning …
By Melinda K. Adams and Jody E. Jessup-Anger In 2021, we gathered with colleagues in our first of three meetings at the Elon summer research seminar, (Re) Examining Conditions for Meaningful Learning Experiences. We were curious about the connection between …
By Breana Bayraktar, Kiruthika Ragupathi and Katherine A. Troyer Our recent research on building trust through feedback in higher education has significant implications for teaching practices across disciplines. We discovered that creating a trusting feedback environment involves a delicate interplay …
By Mirjam Sophia Glessmer and Rachel Forsyth We spent the last months reading, coding, discussing, re-coding, discussing some more, re-coding, discussing even more, and then consensus coding free-text answers of 449 students, completing the analysis, and submitting the manuscript. “Just …
By Lauren Scharff and Jennie Mills The prologue It is unextraordinary to assert that human beings think in stories. Since the earliest times, we have used stories to warn others of the dangers of the world and how we might …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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