Congratulations to the all the faculty (and former faculty!) who presented last week at the ISSoTL 2013 conference:

Assessment Practices in Higher Education, Michelle Yeo & Jennifer Boman

Critical Reading in General Education, Miriam Carey, Karen Manarin, Melanie Rathburn, & Glen Ryland

Impacts of Group Dynamics on the Effectiveness of Term Project in Helping Students to Connect Theory with Practice, Israel Dunmade

Who Speaks for SoTL?, Kelly Hewson & Lee Easton (Sheridan College)

From Classroom to Lobby? A Roundtable on Advocacy by ISSoTL, Kelly Hewson, Diana Gregory (Kennesaw State University), Katarina Martensson (Lund University), Jennifer Meta Robinson (Indiana University)

Reading Through Connections: A Phenomenographic Study of Student Connections to Scholarly Text, Margy MacMillan

Reaching out to the Wider (Disciplinary) Audience, Pat Michaelson (University of Texas – Dallas), Mary Huber (Carnegie Foundation), Nancy Chick (Vanderbilt University), Karen Manarin, Christina Hendricks (UBC)

Troublesome and Transformative Transitions: On the Yellow Brick Road to SoTL Identity, Nicola Simmons (Brock University), Earle Abrahamson (University of East London), Jessica Deshler (West Virginia University), Barbara Kensington-Miller (University of Auckland), Karen Manarin, Sue Moron-Garcia (University of Birmingham), Carolyn Oliver (University of British Columbia), Joanna Renc-Roe (Central European University)

Original Undergraduate Research & the English Major: An Epistemological Transition? Karen Manarin

Transitioning into SoTL: Decoding SoTL while Identifying Bottlenecks and Threshold Concepts, Niamh Kelly (UBC), Janice Miller-Young, Dik Harris (McGill), Gary Poole (UBC), Bettie Higgs (University College Cork)

Developing Critical Skills in General Education: Critical Writing, Mathematical Literacy, and Integrative Learning, John Draeger (Buffalo State College), Susan McMillen (Buffalo State College), Melanie Rathburn, Glen Ryland

The Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University, Jim Zimmer & Janice Miller-Young