Save the date – Oct 28 donation announcement
A new online resource for understanding and doing SoTL
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/sotl/
Have a browse through this new online SoTL Guide from Vanderbilt University!
Call for applications for the 2014 Nexen Scholars Program – deadline Dec 1
Mount Royal faculty members (full time & contract) are invited to submit research development proposals for participation in the 2014 Nexen Scholars Program. This program brings together selected faculty committed to working together to develop classroom-based inquiry projects designed to shed light on a significant aspect of student learning, share evidence and findings publicly in an effort to influence teaching in the field, and create a culture of teaching and learning inquiry at Mount Royal and beyond.
Faculty selected as Nexen Scholars will design and undertake an inquiry project in the Fall 2014 and/or Winter 2015 semester aimed at understanding or improving student learning. Note that in the past, this program has only supported projects where scholars were investigating a question related to student learning in their own class. This year, the Institute will also start accepting projects proposals that explore student learning in a collaborator’s class or over multiple classes. In order for such projects to qualify, they must have direct implications for improving the scholar’s teaching practice.
More info here: 2014nexenscholarsrfp
The call for applications for 2013-14 Going Public Awards is now…. public!
Please read this call carefully as there are quite a few changes from previous years, the major ones being:
- application criteria (more reporting upfront, less after)
- application deadlines
- opportunities to apply for disseminating your original Nexen project OR a subsequent inquiry!!
**Note that the application deadline for attending conferences before the end of the year is October 1.
Free article: SoTL Scholars’ Identity Development
The recently published article, Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space: SoTL Scholars’ Identity Development, is the free sample for the 2nd issue of Teaching and Learning Inquiry, so anyone can access this article. MRU’s Karen Manarin is one of the co-authors.
In it, the authors describe how “navigating among conflicting identities can lead us into a troublesome but deeply reflective liminal space, prompting profound realizations and the reconstruction of our academic identities.” Thanks to the authors for helping to normalise the sometimes “unsettling” experience of engaging in SoTL!
Nicola Simmons, Earle Abrahamson, Jessica M. Deshler, Barbara Kensington-Miller, Karen Manarin, Sue Morón-García, Carolyn Oliver and Joanna Renc-Roe
Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal
Vol. 1, No. 2, Special Issue: Writing Without Borders: 2013 International Writing Collaborative / Guest Editors: Mick Healey and Beth Marquis (2013) (pp. 9-21)
Intro to SoTL: Recommended Readings
The ISSoTL13 Online conference is hosting some Intro to SoTL sessions over the next couple of weeks. Here is their website and list of recommended readings:
- Bass, R. (1999). The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem? Inventio, 1(1).
- Bernstein, D. (2010). Finding Your Place in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4(2).
- Bernstein, D., & Bass, R. (2005). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Academe, 91(4), 37-43.
- Bernstein, D., Burnett, A. N., Goodburn, A., & Savory, P. (2006). Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Course Portfolios and the Peer Review of Teaching. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company.
- Felten, P. (2013). Principles of Good Practice in SoTL. Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 1(1), 121-125.
- Huber, M. T. (2008). The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills. Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges. Stanford, CA: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- Huber, M. T., & Morreale, S. P. (2002). Situating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation. Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground. Stanford, CA: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- Hutchings, P. (2000). Introduction: Approaching the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Stanford, CA: Carnegie Foundation.
- Hutchings, P. (2000). Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Stanford, CA: Carnegie Foundation.
- Hutchings, P., & Shulman, L. (1999). The Scholarship of Teaching: New Elaborations, New Developments. Change, 31(5), 10-15.
- InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching. Volume 8 (2013): Scholarly Teaching and Learning. [Includes an editorial by Pat Hutchings and several SoTL-related articles.]
- McKinney, K. (2004). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Past Lessons, Current Challenges, and Future Visions. To Improve the Academy, 22, 3-19.
- McKinney, K. (2012). Increasing the Impact of SoTL: Two Sometimes Neglected Opportunities. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 6(1).
- McKinney, K., & Chick, N. (2010). SoTL as Women’s Work: What do Existing Data Tell Us? International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4(2).
- Shulman, L. (1993). Teaching as a Community Property: Putting an End to Pedagogical Solitude. Change, 25(6).
- Shulman, L. (1999). Taking Learning Seriously. Change, 31(4), 10-17.
- Shulman, L. (2011). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Personal Account and Reflection. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1).
- Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal.
Teaching with Tablets for Increased Student Engagement and Accountability
Hi everyone,
Please see the following announcement from the Chemistry Department and Brett McCollum:
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The 2013-2014 academic year marks the 5th year of the Chemistry and Biology Speaker Series! The Department of Chemistry would like to invite you to our first colloquium of the Fall 2013 semester,
Brett McCollum, PhD, will be speaking on “Teaching with tablets for increased student engagement and responsibility“.
Dr. McCollum received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in 2008, investigating chemical reaction mechanisms of organic and organometallic compounds using a light “isotope” of hydrogen, muonium. In addition to his research at TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, he has been engaged in the systematic investigation of educational practices and the use of technology in chemistry. McCollum is a current Nexen Scholar with the MRU Institute of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and a Apple Distinguished Educator.
“Touchscreens are doing for education what books, chalk, computers, and calculators have done in the past. They are opening the doors of education, they are allowing us to acquire, create, and share knowledge faster than ever before. What we’re really doing here is building on the strengths of the traditional teaching model and modernizing it for technology available today that students are well-adapted to use.”
Date: Monday, September 23, 2013
Time: 1:00-1:45pm
Place: B-341
We invite you to join us for the best 45 minutes of your day.
Brett McCollum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Apple Distinguished Educator, Nexen Scholar
Department Chemistry
Vol. 1 No. 2 of Teaching and Learning Inquiry is out!
I’m looking forward to reading this new issue which features articles by the “International Writing Groups”, organized as part of ISSoTL 2012. In particular, there are 3 articles to which Mount Royal scholars have contributed:
Conflicts and Configurations in a Liminal Space: SoTL Scholars’ Identity Development(pp. 9-21)
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/teachlearninqu.1.2.9
Being Ethically Minded: Practising the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in an Ethical Manner(pp. 23-32)
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/teachlearninqu.1.2.23
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/teachlearninqu.1.2.49
academic writing resources
The SoTL writing group, facilitated by Karen Manarin, had an intense residency in August and are continuing to work together this semester until everyone’s paper is submitted. What a supportive group! Here are some online resources Karen has passed along (courtesy of Margy):
Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips
How to Respond to a “Revise and Resubmit” from an Academic Journal: Ten Steps to a Successful Revision
Reminder: Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Nov 7-9 in Banff, Proposals due Sept 13, Registration Now Open
We hope you will attend our annual Symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Banff this November. This practitioners conference is dedicated to developing teaching and learning research, sharing nascent findings, going public with results of completed projects, and building an extended scholarly community.
November 7 – 9, 2013 in Banff, Alberta Canada
Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Mount Royal University
Calgary, AlbertaPlease access the
Call for Proposals, http://isotlsymposium.mtroyal.ca/proposals.html accepted from individual scholars or teams of scholars committed to presenting their work in one of two venues:
a 60 minute concurrent session or a 90 minute poster session in the following categories;
completed teaching and learning research,
early returns and initial findings of work in progress,
calls for collaboration, triangulation, and development.Call for Proposals closes September 13, 2013
Registration is now open: http://www.cvent.com/d/94q7kb
Keynote Speakers:
Nancy Chick, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Center for Teaching
Vanderbilt University
Lynn Taylor, Ph.D.
Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning)
University of Calgary
and
Gary Poole, Ph.D.
Associate Director
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Karen Manarin, Ph.D.
Departments of English and General Education
Mount Royal University
and
April McGrath, Ph.D.,
Department of Psychology
Mount Royal University
Pre-Symposium Workshops:
Qualitative Methods of Data Collection & Analysis in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Facilitator: Deb Bennett, Ph.D. Mount Royal University
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