MRU Institute for SoTL

Sixth Annual Symposium

Thank you to all those who came to, spoke at and participated in the Symposium on SoTL. So many wonderful workshops sessions and discussions, we’ll take weeks to process them! To get a sense of how the symposium went, visit a Storify of all the tweets here . And speaking of tweets, the wonderful D’Arcy Norman at UCalgary has done a Netlytic visualization of the twitter connections

ssotl15 tweets

And I played with this new Netlytic toy that D’Arcy introduced me to and developed this

 

 

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Netlytic also allows you to analyse the content of tweets – I found it interesting that after the conference hashtag, the most frequent word was STUDENTS!

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MRU at ISSoTL 2015 in Melbourne

I’ve just returned from the 12th annual conference of the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.  Despite its being in beautiful but far-away Melbourne, Mount Royal had a good showing – 7 presentations which were all well-received!  See the twitter feed #issotl15 for more conference highlights.

Boman, J., Currie, G., MacDonald, R., Miller-Young, J., Yeo, M., & Zettel, S.  Communities of Decoding: Using the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm to create faculty learning communities on 3 continents. (panel presentation chaired by David Pace)

Manarin, K. & Abrahamson, E. SoTL: Lost in Translation?

Manarin, K. Carey, M., & McGrath, A.  Scaffolded research: Student attitudes and student achievement. 

Miller-Young, J., Yeo, M.,  & Manarin, K. Boundary Crossing and Troublesomeness: Experiences of Scholars in a SoTL Development Program. 

O’Connor, K., & Sterenberg, G. Developing a sense of place: Engagement through school and community partnerships.

Yeo, M., & Hewitt, S. Innovating pedagogy in a first year science course. 

  • Michelle Yeo: concept maps help structure note taking and make links in anatomy and physiology, improved retention too. #issotl15 #STEM from @whydee13

Yeo, M., Manarin, K., & Miller-Young, J. Phenomenology of Surprise in a SoTL scholars program. 

  • “After immersion in SOTL some feel like a stranger in their own discipline”. Whole room nodding and mmhhmming. #issotl15 from @kerryleehood
  • After doing SoTL, some faculty report feeling like a stranger in their own discipline. Fascinating research by Michelle Yeo. #issotl15 from @pfeltenNC

 

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