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 …
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 …
By Shan Mohammed, Quinn Grundy, Jessica Bytautas As health science educators who teach students about how broader social, political, and cultural forces shape healthcare, our research team sought to conceptualize the impact of post-truth on higher education. We characterize post-truth …
By Holly J. Swanson, Bryan Dewsbury One of the limitations of the first implementation of the Ace Your Course Challenge (AYCC) was the confounding effect of the different initial motivations of students who completed the intervention. Without being able to …
