Take a look at all of the great SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) conferences that will happen during this 2014-2015 academic year, listed on our SoTL Conferences page. The number and type of these conferences has grown dramatically over the last several years. There are disciplinary and interdisciplinary conferences, as well as national and … Continue reading
Click here to listen to a podcast on Scholarly Teaching and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Professor Randy Bass. Randy is a Professor in the English Department in the American Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is also Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning Initiatives, Executive Director of the Center for New Designs … Continue reading
From my POD listserv: The submission of proposals period for the 6th annual SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah, Georgia, is extended to November 15, 2012. The conference website is at: http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2013/index.htm
Our good friend and esteemed colleague, Ellen Stevens, retired last spring after founding and leading the Center for Faculty Development at UCD for the last eight years. She brought visibility, humor, keen mentorship, equity, and a consistent leadership vision to her work in advocacy for the role of excellent teaching and all aspects of professional … Continue reading
From my ISSoTL listserv: IISSAM, the International Institute for SoTL Mentors and Scholars, will be held at Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1012, with a preconference workshop on May 31, 2012. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects (already selected by a peer-review process) will be presented as works-in-progress. Institute attendees will … Continue reading
The latest edition of Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning eJournal is freely accessible at: http://kwantlen.ca/TD/Current_Issue. The articles are available as .pdf files. The reader can be downloaded for free from Adobe at: http://get.adobe.com/reader. All of the previous issues of Transformative Dialogue are located at: http://kwantlen.ca/TD/past_issues. Transformative Dialogues is a forum for conversations intended to foster … Continue reading
The new issue of International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is available online at http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v6n1.html. Authors are from Australia, Canada, UK and the United States.
The proposal deadline for this conference has passed, but take a look at the really interesting topics — looks like a great organization and conference. 2012 International Conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Centre Mont-Royal Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 19 – 22, 2012 http://www.mcgill.ca/stlhe2012sapes The Society for Teaching and Learning … Continue reading
I just finished reading Maryellen Weimer’s excellent post, End of Semester Reflections: Beginning, Endings and Spaces Between, in the Teaching Professor Blog. She writes, “Previously I would have encouraged everyone to write about the courses that have just ended. What do you think you will remember about them in five years? Are there students you will … Continue reading