Making the Case for Virtual Placements Jamie Murray In today’s post, Dr. Jamie Murray (@jamiegmurray86) makes the case for increasing virtual placements by outlining the main benefits but also considering the key challenges facing students and placement coordinators. Jamie is also delighted to introduce the new School of Psychology & Neuroscience Employability Network which he […]
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#SoTLAdvent: Day 03
1. Interactive Learning – Sharing our Experiences Geethanjali Selvaretnam and Ian Smith (University of Glasgow) and (University of St Andrews) The value of interactive learning is widely recognised and educators are curious to learn about the effectiveness of different methods of interactive learning. Our contribution to the advent calendar is to share some methods we […]
Interactive Learning–sharing our experiences
The pedagogical benefits of interactive learning motivate educators to incorporate effective methods. In this blog, the authors have shared some of the methods they have used to facilitate interactive learning, along with links to further analysis of these studies.
#SoTLAdvent: Day 02
Table of Content Virtual Reality (VR) in Education A game changer or smoke and mirrors? VR is one of the most studied emerging innovative technologies used in several fields such as education, medical training, military training, architectural design learning and more. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that Virtual Reality (VR) supported lessons are able to enhance […]
#SoTLAdvent: Day 01
Welcome to UofG 12 Days of SoTL 2022 The editorial team for this year’s 12 Days of SoTL welcomes you to our new calendar! As usual the calendar is jam packed with interesting, fun, and innovative contributions that showcase the amazing scholarship work our colleagues in the University of Glasgow but also our guests undertake! […]
12 Days of SoTL Editorial Team
Lead Editors Dr Alison McCandlish Dr Alison McCandlish is a lecturer in City Planning and Acting Programme Director for MSc City Planning and MSc City Planning & Real Estate Development. She is based in Urban Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Alison enjoys using creative methods and site visits in her teaching, and using […]
Writing about your Teaching Practice: Your DIY Writing Workshop
originally published: 15th November 2022 Finding your SoTL Writing Voice This post is based on a CPD session I ran today, for colleagues and PGR students who are new to SoTL and trying to figure out just where to begin with it. I am going to share the writing prompts with you. So if you […]
SoTL and your Practice
How can those with SoTL experience mentor colleagues who are new to SoTL? One of the aspects colleagues who are new to SoTL particularly colleagues coming straight from a research only background can struggle with is how different the approach to SoTL is versus “pure” educational research. SoTL is first and foremost concerned with evaluating […]
Getting started with SoTL writing
When you look at the end product of colleagues’ writing it can be easy to assume that others are just good at writing – that they find it easy, and they are just better at it than you are. (Oh, hello, imposter syndrome, fancy seeing you here!) But actually, as we know from our teaching […]
Messy Writing
By Julia Bohlmann I’m a draft writer or daft writer, depending what way you are looking at it. What I’m trying to say is that I’m a writer of multiple drafts. This is because I have long accepted that my first two drafts of anything are going to be messy. So apart from being a […]
Popcorn writing and the benefits of movie nights
By Alison McCandlish When reflecting upon my writing style, I came to a realisation that I often have a lot of ideas, yet sometimes do not know how to approach them or create the time to craft my words into a paper. On occasion my ideas just flow out and before I know it I […]
Angry writing
By Sarah Honeychurch I am not often an angry writer, but sometimes a particular situation really gets me frustrated. One thing that particularly annoys me is when I am given a task or topic that is unclear – if a subject is so wide that there are many possible ways to approach it, putting pen […]
10 Guiding Questions for Your SoTL Project
Just having finished teaching the course ‘Designing Educational Inquiries’. I realised it might be useful to just have a simple list of questions to work through when you plan your SoTL that also need to be answered in your ethics applications: What does the Literature say? What are your questions? What is your theoretical position? […]
“Are engineers better placed to learn to become physics teachers than physicists?”
Asks our author Nicola Jones in this thoughtful blogpost. So get your cuppa and enjoy the read! Learning to become a teacher is a challenging and daunting task for many but for those with backgrounds in physics and maths, learning to become a physics teacher may be harder than for those from engineering backgrounds. To […]
#LoveCoSESoTL
Colleagues of the College of Science & Engineering (CoSE) are running a social media campaign via Twitter this week (14-19 March 2022) to share our love of the amazing SoTL work of our colleagues in our disciplines. SoTL is an integral part to provide evidence-based teaching practice, and therefore continuously improve our students’ learning experience. […]
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