ISSoTL special interest group on Student Engagement
The ISSoTL special interest group on Student Engagement is now being co-chaired by Andrea Jackson from the University of Leeds, and MRU’s Israel Dunmade. Interested in getting involved? Here’s a recent message from them received through the ISSoTL listserv:
Special Interest Group meeting @ ISSOTL 2013
We will be holding a Special Interest Group meeting at the forthcoming ISSOTL conference on Friday 4th October after the concurrent sessions (room to be confirmed). It would be great to see many of you there to discuss ways in which we can promote and disseminate the outcomes of scholarly research on the topic of student engagement and how we can best support those who would like to participate in scholarly activity in this area of interest.
ISSOTL Student Awards – judging volunteers
There will be two new student awards at this year’s conference, one for best poster and one for best conference session led by a student. Further details will be announced shortly on the conference web-site (http://issotl13.com/). The conference team are looking for volunteers to assist with the judging for these awards. Please let me know if you would like to help.
Israel and I very much look forward to meeting some of you at the conference soon. For those who are not able to join us then we will send you a summary of the outcomes of the meeting but if you have any suggestions for ways in which the Interest Group could help you then please let us know.
IJ-SoTL Vol.7 No.2 is online
The new July 2013 issue of IJ-SoTL, published by the CTLS at Georgia Southern University, is now available online.
Note: It also includes a reader’s response from MRU’s April McGrath on describing and analyzing quantitative data!
grants to support student attendance at ISSoTL conference
From the issotl listserv:
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(ISSOTL) is pleased to announce a special grant program to support
undergraduate, graduate student, and post-doc participation in the 2013
ISSOTL conference, October 2-5, in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
http://www.issotl13.com
Individuals will be awarded grants to cover all but $50 of the cost to
register for the conference, including pre-conference workshop fees, and to
join ISSOTL. Individual travel, hotel and other costs will *not* be covered
by this grant. Awardees will be expected to attend the Thursday, October 3,
poster session and reception, where they will be recognized. Awardees must
be enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students at the time of the
conference, or hold a current post-doc appointment.
Grant applications will be evaluated by members of the ISSOTL 2013
conference planning committee. Award decisions will be based on the
applicant’s commitment to the study of teaching and learning, and the
relevance of the conference/ISSOTL membership to the applicant’s career
plans. The committee also seeks to make awards to students/post-docs from a
diverse set of higher education institutions. We anticipate awarding
approximately 35 grants.
Applicants must submit the material listed below via email to Heidi Irhig,
ISSOTL13@elon.edu, by Friday, August 30, 2013. Award winners will be
notified by Thursday, September 12, 2013.
Applicants must submit:
1. An email (less than 400 words) explaining your interest in ISSOTL and
the conference, and reflecting on how the grant connects to your career
goals. Be sure to include your name, degree status (i.e., undergraduate,
Ph.D. candidate, etc.), institution, and contact information.
2. Your Curriculum Vitae, attached to the email as a PDF or Word
document. If you are scheduled to present at the ISSOTL conference, please
highlight that on your CV.
3. Optional: You also may attach one brief recommendation from an ISSOTL
member that endorses your application.
For details about and to register for the conference, please visit:
http://www.issotl13.com
If you have questions about this grant program, please contact Peter Felten,
conference co-chair (pfelten@elon.edu).
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ISSOTL 2013: Critical Transitions in Teaching and Learning – October 2-5,
2013 – Raleigh, North Carolina, US – http://www.issotl13.com
Convened in a city known for its beautiful public parks and thriving
cultural life, the conference will feature workshops facilitated by leading
scholars in the field, distinguished international plenary speakers
(including Lee Shulman, President Emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, and also an international trio of TED-like
talks), panel presentations, individual paper and poster presentations, and
ISSOTL¹s signature Conference Commons for informal idea-sharing and
networking. Please join us!
In addition to the energizing sessions in Raleigh, join us for ISSOTL Online
2013, a free online seminar scheduled for the weeks leading up to the
conference. ISSOTL Online 2013 begins September 9, 2013, and continues
through September 28, 2013. To register for ISSOTL Online, visit the
conference web site and click on “programs.”
resources on starting higher education research
The field of engineering education research is active and quite well established. There are a number of resources written for engineers who want to get into education research, and they would be quite useful for anyone thinking about doing SoTL but not having an education or qualitative research background. Let me know what you think of them!
Planning, Implementing, and Reporting Quantitative Research in Education: A User’s Guide
Qualitative Research Basics: A Guide for Engineering Educators
A Guidebook on Conceptual Frameworks for Research in Engineering Education
For a more comprehensive overview of educational research methods, the following is an often-recommended resource. I have a copy if my office if you’d like to borrow it.
Do you have any resources from education research in your discipline? Please share!
– Janice
new journal: Teaching and Learning Inquiry
Hi everyone – on the subject of venues for SoTL publication, I received my first copy of “Teaching Learning Inquiry” last week. TLI is the official journal of the International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and is published by Indiana University Press. We are delighted to have both of the journal’s co-editors – Nancy Chick and Gary Poole – keynoting our SoTL Symposium in November. More information about Teaching Learning Inquiry is available here.
-posted by Jim Zimmer
ACIFA SoTL Award – applications due Oct 15
ACIFA awards up to two grants of $1,000.00 each annually for research projects related to improving teaching and learning conducted by members of ACIFA. The award is intended to assist with materials and/or study costs associated with the research project.
The research project may span part or all of the 2013/2014 academic year but must not exceed that time limit. Application form attached.
Provocative article on evidence-based teaching
Dr. Ben Goldacre writes extensively on science and science communication issues. Recently tasks with looking at Education research in the UK, his report is now available online. Although directed at the K-12 system, most of what he has to say is equally applicable to postsecondary issues.
enjoy,
margy
– posted by Margy MacMillan
TITLE – Textual Information for Teaching and Learning Edification
Pulled these from the last few months’ worth of new book lists….
Interpretative phenomenological analysis: theory, method and research / Jonathan A. Smith, Paul Flowers and Michael Larkin. Los Angeles, [Calif.]: SAGE, 2009. BF 204.5 S65 2009
Ethnography and virtual worlds: a handbook of method / Tom Boellstorff … [et al.] ; with a foreword by George Marcus. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2012. GN 345. B64 2012
Introducing research methodology: a beginner’s guide to doing a research project / Uwe Flick. Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE, 2011. H 62. F45 2011
Natural experiments in the social sciences: a design-based approach / Thad Dunning.Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. H 62. D86 2012
Using IBM SPSS statistics for social statistics and research methods / William E. Wagner.Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE, c2013. HA 32. W34 2013
Case study research: design and methods / Robert K. Yin. Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE, c2009. H 62. Y56 2009
Interpreting qualitative data: a guide to the principles of qualitative research / David Silverman. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage, 2011. HM 571. S53 2011
Visual research: an introduction to research methodologies in graphic design / Ian Noble, Russell Bestley ; foreward by Ellen Lupton. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA, c2011. NC 997. N62 2011
Media discourse / Norman Fairclough. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 1995.
P 96. L34 F35 1995 – a classic
Critical discourse analysis: the critical study of language / by Norman Fairclough. Toronto ; Harlow, Eng.: Longman, c2010. P 302. F35 2010
How to do critical discourse analysis: a multimodal introduction / David Machin and Andrea Mayr. Los Angeles, [Calif.]: SAGE, 2012. P 302. M33 2012
Discourse of text messaging: analysis of text message communication / Caroline Tagg.New York: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011. P 302.3 T34 2011
Critical media analysis: an introduction for media professionals / Matteo Stocchetti, Karin Kukkonen. Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] ; New York: Peter Lang, 2011. P 96. C76 S76 2011
Systematic approaches to a successful literature review / Andrew Booth, Diana Papaioannou, Anthea Sutton. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage, 2012. Q 180.55 M4 B64 2012
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining / Bing Liu. [S.l.]: Morgan & Claypool, c2012.
QA 76.9 D343 L58 2012
Synthesizing qualitative research: choosing the right approach / edited by Karin Hannes, Craig Lockwood. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, BMJ Books, 2012. R 853. Q34 S96 2012
-posted by Margy MacMillan
blog on teaching & learning
Hat tip to Nancy Chick who writes for the CfT blog and through whom I found out about it. Interesting, thoughtful posts about aspects of teaching and learning. –http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/blog/
-posted by Margy MacMillan
Classifying Educational Research
Tomorrow’s Professor (February 28 2013, message #1233) just had a nice post on different classifications of educational research, which would also be applicable to SoTL. It would be a nice introductory read for someone just entering the world of SoTL/educational research. It briefly describes and gives examples of theoretical, action, evaluative, experimental, case study, exploratory, comparative, grounded theory, and ethnography research.
TP Archives can be found here:
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/postings.php
The post is taken from Chapter 1, Research, paradigms, and ethics, in the book: A Beginner’s Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project, by Mike Lambert. Published by SAGE Publications Inc.