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 […]
Category: Communities of Practice
Day 10: The Power of Collaborative SoTL
Sarah Honeychurch, Linnea Soler, Vicky Price, Carolyn Loveridge, Frances Docherty, Nathalie Tasler, Beth Dickson, Lindsey Pope In this blog we want to talk about the power of collaboration and friendship, and how a serendipitous series of events bought us together as a group. Who are we? We are a group of LTS colleagues who came […]
A conversation on sustainability in teaching practice
Authors: Mia Perry @MiaJPerry, Gabriella Rodolico @DrRodolico, Karen Thompson, Karen MacEachern @KarenMacEacher3, Sarah Anderson, Camille Huser @CamilleHuser In a time when human behaviours are critically damaging the ecologies of the planet, the climate crisis has become the most urgent and ubiquitous issue of our lifetime. With a very ambitious legal framework for emissions reduction, The […]
Enhancing student engagement and subject knowledge using task-based team learning
by Dr Lovleen Kushwah and Dr Eva Pocher Background Enhancing student engagement using collaborative work in a framework of taught topics is nothing new. Team-based learning facilitates conceptual understanding and helps students develop communication skills (Gosser, 2001). It has been incorporated in our teaching practice to overcome a challenge in one of our Undergraduate Economics […]
Building a Study Community through Podcasts
We are Dr Micky Ross and Dr Julia Bohlmann – the International Team at UofG’s Learning Enhancement and Academic Development Service (LEADS). We work with international students from all subject areas, so there is always a lot to do. Until last year we never quite got around to expanding our online provision. But the enforced […]
Write and Shine Sessions
What are these sessions? Write and Shine sessions are sometimes going under the name of writing boot-camp, or shut-up and write (yes that’s the official title) sessions. These sessions are very loosely based on Prof Rowena Murray’s work (link opens in new window). To summarize, the idea is to disconnect from everything else, get together […]
#LoveSoTL this February
Hello SoTL community, not sure how you are feeling but I am trying to emerge from the deep dark winter like the first snowdrops I saw over the weekend. To make this last month before spring (in the Northern Hemisphere)a bit more fun and bring some colour. Let’s celebrate the month of love with a […]
Working Out Loud:
Elizabeth Petrie Trying to successfully teach a maths component of a MSc module where students range in experience from ‘vaguely remember GCSE topics’ to ‘just graduated with a maths or statistics degree’…. I am a very recent convert to the idea of making my own contribution to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL); since […]
The Value of SoTL: Reflections on ‘Becoming’ an Early Career (Teaching) Academic
Doctoral education can be considered an ‘apprenticeship’ (Park, 2015); where a new generation of practitioners (doctoral students) engage in on-the-job training (research and teaching) to become sufficiently adept at a profession (academia). In the first year of my doctoral studies (early 2010s), I remember attending a talk about ‘becoming an academic’, where we were told the […]
Three questions on student learning:
SoTL in a professional services role I’ve enjoyed carrying out a number of SoTL projects while working in a professional services role at the University of Glasgow. So how do you get involved in SoTL if you’re not a lecturer or tutor? And what can this perspective bring to SoTL projects? SoTL isn’t just ‘something […]
The value of teaching observations for the development of GTA educator identity.
Dr Hannah Mathers, Pamela Rattigan, Alice Lacsny, Natalie Marr, Allan Hollinsworth
A Faculty Learning Community
Dr Sharon Sneddon Dr Genevieve Stapleton ‘On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me… a faculty learning community’ Well, it almost fits, and you’d think that your true love would send you something better than a faculty learning community!! BUT! If you want engage in SoTL, but are feeling a bit isolated, or are […]
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