Publishing SoTL
Look what turned up in Janice Miller Young’s feedly feed: Kathleen McKinney has posted a great list of tips for disseminating SoTL work – everything from considerations of the research and writing process to the mechanics of writing for particular publications – including this one:
“7. SoTL is action, practioner, applied research. Spend time in the discussion section talking about how you have used the results and/or plan to use the results (specific changes and actions) to enhance student learning. Make application suggestions for readers. You would be amazed at how often this area is neglected in SoTL papers.”
Highly recommended!
And in other news – Nancy Chick forwarded this article from Teaching in Psychology – among other things the authors found “Thus, the citation patterns of authors’ teaching research are not distinguishable from their traditional discipline research.” Interesting when we consider evaluating scholarly work…
Tomcho, T. J., Foels, R., Walter, M. I., Yerkes, K., Brady, B., Erdman, M., … & Manry, A. (2014). Outside the Classroom and Beyond Psychology A Citation Analysis of the Scientific Influence of Teaching Activities. Teaching of Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/0098628314562661.
Teaching and Learning Exchange – presentations for Winter 2015
Mark your calendars! We hope you can join us for the following presentations of recent and ongoing SoTL projects:
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Teacher Candidates’ Learning Through Theory-and-Practice Integration
Gladys Sterenberg (Department of Education and Schooling)
Kevin O’Connor (Department of Education and Schooling)
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Noon – 1 p.m.
Room Y324
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Mobile or Traditional? Student Value Placement on Learning Technologies
Brett McCollum (Department of Chemistry)
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Room Y324
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Undergraduate Research in Classroom Contexts: A Collaborative SoTL Project
Karen Manarin (Departments of English and General Education)
Miriam Carey (Academic Development Centre)
April McGrath (Department of Psychology)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Room Y324
2015 Nexen Scholars
Looking forward to our first meeting of the 2015 Nexen Scholars cohort today!!
This year’s cohort and their projects:
Depicting Suffering: The Student Experience, Pat Kostouros, Child Studies and Social Work
Concepts over Calculations; Context over Computations: Incorporating Case Studies in Business Statistics, Brad Quiring and Collette Lemieux, Bissett School of Business
Exploring Arts-Based Approaches to Developing Leadership in Senior Nursing Students, Joanna Szabo, Nursing
Developing Student Noticing with the Use of Recorded Speech Samples in the ESL Classroom, Sheri Rhodes, International Education
kudos to Margy MacMillan
… whose recent article “Student Connection with Academic Texts: A Phenomenographic Study of Reading” (Teaching in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/1362517.2014.934345) has just been covered in the December 2014 issue of
European SoTL Conference
upcoming external award deadlines
Desire2Learn Innovation in Teaching and Learning
The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and Desire2Learn are pleased to invite submissions for the 2015 Desire2Learn Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. This Award celebrates and recognizes innovative approaches that promote learning in new ways at post-secondary institutions. Awards are open to all instructors currently teaching at a post-secondary institution, regardless of discipline, level, or term of appointment. Applications in French or English are welcomed. Candidates do not need to be members of STLHE to apply.
Submission Deadline March 1, 2015.
Further details and award criteria:
www.stlhe.ca/awards/desire2learn-innovation-award/
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SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants
This competition will be launched in support of the objectives of the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative, with a focus on one of the six future challenge areas. The knowledge synthesis will address the challenge area of: What new ways of learning, particularly in higher education, will Canadians need to thrive in an evolving society and labour market?
These grants are not intended to support original research, rather they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge on the topic and the identification of knowledge gaps. The call for proposals is scheduled to be released on SSHRC’s website in early January 2015, with an application deadline in late February 2015. Results will be announced in March 2015.
Up to 15 awards valued at up to $25,000 each will be awarded. The synthesis reports will be due no later than end September 2015 and award holders will be requested to participate in two workshop meetings in Ottawa. These will be scheduled in early Spring and late Fall.
Kudos to Karen Manarin and the Critical Reading team!
highlights from the 2014 Banff Symposium on SoTL
We had a fantastic conference in Banff last week and many collaborative conversations about the value of interdisciplinary, the imperative of changing our teaching to address the big problems of today’s world, and the importance of collaborating with students.
Please see Margy’s “storify” from the twitter feed of our Symposium in Banff last week for twitter highlights:
https://storify.com/margymaclibrary/ssotl-2014-symposium-on-scholarship-of-teaching-an
and a few photos from the twitter feed below:
New resources on “Communicating SoTL”
Thank you to Margy MacMillan, librarian extraordinaire, for curating many resources on writing/publishing/communicating research and putting them on our new page, Communicating SoTL. Let us know if you find them useful!
The latest issue of CJSoTL is out, Vol 5(1)
Kudos to a few Mount Royal folk published in the latest issue:
Qualitative Insights from a Canadian Multi-institutional Research Study: In Search of Meaningful E-learning
Lorraine M. Carter, Vince Salyers, Sue Myers, Carol Hipfner, Caroline Hoffart, Christa MacLean, Kathy White, Theresa Matus, Vivian Forssman, and Penelope Barrett