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ICWGs 2024: “Reflecting and Reinvigorating: The Past, Present, and Future of ISSOTL”

Starting in 2022, ISSOTL’s International Collaborative Writing Group (ICWG) Initiative began a three-year schedule: one year for a cohort focused on public SoTL, one year for a cohort focused on academic writing, and one year reserved for emergent ICWG opportunities.
In early 2023, the ISSOTL Board invited members to form a working group to identify the focus for the ISSOTL24 ICWGs.  They developed and received Board approval for the opportunity below.

To highlight ISSOTL’s 20th anniversary, the 2024 ICWGs will focus on “Reflecting and Reinvigorating: The Past, Present, and Future of ISSOTL.”  Participants will explore who we are, how we came to be, what has worked, what is missing, what could be, and how ISSOTL fits into the broader history of SoTL.

Potential projects include the following:

  • A deep dive into The ISSOTL Commons (ISSOTL’s previous newsletter with 16 issues from January 2007 to January 2012) and/or Teaching & Learning Inquiry, which might include data mining, close reading, or other methods
  • Building a searchable database or using data visualization tool to analyze past conferences (e.g., through the programs) and creating a process for adding future conference materials
  • A digital storytelling project that draws on existing interviews with ISSOTL scholars (e.g., the ISSOTL13 videos, the 2021 interviews of past ICWG members, Indiana University interview project interviews [pending IRB approval]) and collects new interview materials
  • An analysis of successful ISSOTL efforts to grow SoTL across contexts, regions, institutional types, etc., reporting on what has worked in these efforts and how ISSOTL can extend these successes to do even better
  • An exploration of the pathways by which individuals have “found” ISSOTL, with a critical look at the ways in which some pathways are smoother than others and recommendations for broadening those pathways to make ISSOTL more inclusive
  • The development of ISSOTL resources and recommendations for members working within their institutional processes (e.g., how to write about SoTL in applications for tenure and promotion, how to evaluate SoTL in applications for promotion and tenure, how to conduct an external review focused on SoTL and how to find these external reviewers), drawing significantly on ISSOTL resources (e.g., material from the Advocacy Committee, relevant ISSOTL interviews and publications).

As intentional, international collaborations that bring together ISSOTL members of all ranks and regions in focused inquiry, the ICWGs embody both the spirit and the work of ISSOTL. 

Aims and Outcomes

The aims of this cohort of ICWGs are to

  • build the capacity of participants to innovate and work effectively in international collaborative groups,
  • capture the collective historical knowledge into a set of products that live on beyond the individual
  • document ISSOTL’s collective history (i.e., explore who we are, how we came to be, what has worked, what is missing, what could be, and how ISSOTL fits into the broader history of SoTL)
  • foster creativity in identifying the best product(s) for the work of the group

Timeline

  Formation of the ICWGs
 

Co-Leaders

  • November 2023:  Call for applications for co-leaders 
  • December 15:  Applications for co-leaders due
  • January 1, 2024:  Co-leaders announced, Work with ICWG Working Group to narrow to specific topic areas and potential outputs

Group Facilitators

  • January 15:  Call for group facilitators
  • January 30:  Applications for group facilitators due including preferred modality (fully virtual vs. virtual with face-to-face working session at ISSOTL24)
  • February 15:  Group facilitators announced

Participants 

  • February 20: Call for participants
  • March 15:  Applications for participants due
  • April 15:  Participants announced
  ICWGs Work at a Distance
 
  • April 15:  Groups start work
  • September 15: Abstracts, plans, & identified needs from each group due
….. ICWGs Work Together Preceding ISSOTL24 Conference
 
  • October 27-28, 2024:  face-to-face working session preceding the Oct 28-31 ISSOTL24 conference [Note that all co-leaders, group facilitators, and group participants are expected to be in attendance at ISSOTL24, unless a group has been identified as virtual.]
  ICWGs Work at a Distance
 
  • November 2024 – October 2025: ICWG cohort and individual groups continue working until completion
  • October 2025: Final products due, recommend presenting at ISSOTL25

 

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