A group of faculty, who have either been through the Nexen Scholars program or have conducted a SoTL project, are developing a Community of Practice to support themselves in furthering their SoTL work.  For those who are interested but can’t make our meetings, we’ll post brief summaries here.

At our first meeting last month, 4 main themes emerged from our discussion about what kinds of support everyone was looking for:

• sharing expertise on conducting collaborative projects
• exploring methodologies
• strategizing personal trajectories and developing research programs
• being a sounding board for members to discuss their current projects

We decided our next meeting would begin with a brief survey (courtesy of Michelle Yeo) of 4 qualitative research paradigms: “empirical” qualitative, interpretive, critical and postmodern.  We thought a discussion of these paradigms might help to broaden our perspectives of what kinds of research questions can be asked in SoTL.  We’ll also be discussing the following article:

Kanuka, H. (2011). Keeping the Scholarship in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1).
http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/int_jtl/252/

Looking forward to seeing where this discussion takes us!

Reminder: our next meeting is Friday Oct 18 at 2:00.