It’s spring… and time to plan your session!

Proposals due May 11, 2018

8^th Annual Symposium on

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: 

Building SoTL Communities

November 8-10, 2018

Banff, Alberta

Hosted by the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at  Mount Royal University

Call for Proposals

SoTL Speaker Series Event

Friday, April 6

12-1pm in EL 2462

Ada Jaarsma and Kenna Olsen

Experiments in Scholarly Teaching

Join us in an interactive exploration of scholarly teaching. We will traverse the humanities, from medieval literature to contemporary philosophy, and will share our discoveries about the value of collaborative experiments in SoTL. This talk will lay out the insights that emerged from a year-long SoTL mentorship project, but more interestingly, perhaps, it will open up new questions about the nature and import of scholarly teaching.

SoTL Reading Group
This is the last meeting of the SoTL journal club for Winter 2018!
Karen Manarin will present a paper by Trent Maurer and Cassidy Keim: “Teaching about prejudice with a Bogardus Social Distance Scale activity: Replication and extension”

Here’s a finely-crafted link to the paper:
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol12/iss1/7/

Karen also suggests having a look at April McGrath’s paper on null hypothesis significance testing as related/background/support reading:
http://tlijournal.com/tli/index.php/TLI/article/view/3/101

Cheers!
jon

When: Wed., Mar 28,  11am-noon
Where: EL2462

Come one, come all!
Michelle Yeo will be presenting the next paper: “Crossing the Threshold in Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies Courses: An Assessment of Student Learning” by Holly Hassel and Christie Launius:
http://tlijournal.com/tli/index.php/TLI/article/view/7

Please note that “interlopers” (people who aren’t presenting this term, and may have time only to read the abstract) ARE absolutely encouraged to attend!

Regards,
jon

When:
Wed Mar 14,  11:30 am- 12:30 pm
Where: in the RLLC, EL2462

Come one, come all!
Erik Christiansen and Chris Thomas will be presenting the next paper “Tracking the scholarship of teaching and learning” by Malcolm Tight:
https://libproxy.mtroyal.ca/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322969.2017.1390690

Please note that “interlopers” (people who aren’t presenting this term, and may have time only to read the abstract) ARE absolutely encouraged to attend!

9-10 am

Wed Feb 28, 2018

EL2462 in the RLLC

Come one, come all!
Miriam Carey will be presenting the next paper:

Designing & evaluating students’ transformative learning by Nina B. Namaste
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188&context=cjsotl_rcacea

Please note that “interlopers” (people who aren’t presenting this term, and may have time only to read the abstract) ARE absolutely encouraged to attend!

Regards,
jon

When
Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:00 am
Where
EL2462

SoTL Reading Group Organizational Meeting
Dear Colleagues,
The MRU SoTL reading group will be back for a second year.

The first organizational meeting will take place on December 12th 2017 at noon  in : EL 2462 (Riddell Library and Learning Centre). We will discuss the format and schedule of future discussions (to be held in 2018).

There will be treats!

Following from last year’s iteration of this initiative, these scholarly meetings are intended to bring together people interested or engaged in SoTL to talk about important contributions to the field. Some people might call this a “journal club”.

Please feel free to circulate this email and invite others. Please let me know if you never want to hear about this from me again!

Warmly,

Jon

Hello SoTL (and related) people!

Hello people who are interested in discussion of SoTL (and related) research!