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 […]
Category: SoTL Advent Calendar
#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 […]
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 […]
Day 7: Learning to Read Scientific Journal Articles
Do your elves struggle with reading (scientific) journal articles? Do they even know where to start? Do they know how to read them and extract appropriate information? Would you like to help them become more comfortable, confident and capable when d’elving into these tomes? Then, Day 7 is your lucky day! James Bartlett (@JamesEBartlett) and […]
Day 6: Peer-mentoring through hybrid co-teaching
Dr Natalie L Courtney and Dr Ourania Varsou If there is one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that we can and should make better use of technology, ensuring we use it to our advantage. There is now an understanding that many of the activities that we once thought were only possible […]
Day 5a: Internationalisation and Education, is it becoming more of a dream than reality?
Gabriella Rodolico and Mark Breslin Remember to join us on 10th December at 10:00-12:00 for our SoTL Network Meeting! Today for Day 5 (Part A) we are going to be treated to a blog and interview about an Internationalisation project conducted at the School of Education. The project unfolded at the University of Glasgow during […]
Day 5b:The Future is Within Our Hands
Mark Breslin Remember to join us on 10th December at 10:00-12:00 for our SoTL Network Meeting! In your second post of Day 5, Mark Breslin (@MarkBreslinUoG) shares his insights into active, outdoor active, outdoor and creative pedagogical practices being delivered within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Many government policies are pushing […]
Day 4: Getting Started with SoTL
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Day 3a: Journey to SoTL City
Day 3 offers you the gift of a wonderfully thoughtful comic, by Matt Offord (@dataeducata, Adam Smith Business School), describing the perils, pitfalls, and pleasures of a SoTL journey. Deceptively simple in appearance, it packs a powerful message to all SoTl’ers. Song of the Day 3a Don’t forget to visit the other two posts from […]
Day 3b: Share Your SoTL Magic
In your second post of Day 3 Linnea Soler & Smita Odedra (@dr_odedra & @DrLinneaSoler)(both in School of Chemistry) share some of their insights into how to start the process of SoTL dissemination, including an insight that blew their minds. Add to your potions portfolio and enjoy this interactive resource. (Accessible content addressing the key […]
Day 3c: SoTL: It’s not just the destination, it’s also the journey
In your third post of Day 3 Linnea Soler (@DrLinneaSoler, School of Chemistry) shares her Mindmap Musings which were used to underpin the thoughts and insights of today’s second post (“Share Your SoTL Magic”). You may access this Mindmap material via three routes: 1) Explore Mindmap through AYOA (there is no need to register)2) Download […]
Day 2a: Virtual Reality on the primary science course – School of Education, University of Glasgow
Gabriella Rodolico The lesson, Body Systems, was taught by using more traditional methodologies to explore the body, such as peak flow meters and velcro organs aprons to more advanced technology such as virtual reality (VR). This was a fantastic opportunity for the PGDE primary student teachers to take the lead in a micro teaching sessions […]
Day 2b: Staff experiences of hybrid learning during a pandemic
|Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed In this blog post, Dr Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed reflects on a collaborative research project with Dr Serdar Abaci and Prof Judy Robertson, that aimed to understand the experiences of teaching staff who were involved in hybrid/blended teaching during the pandemic. Undoubtedly, the past year and a half has been a rollercoaster. Many have experienced […]
Day1b: Cheating is inevitable in business games
|Matt Offord Games are increasingly popular in business schools but claims for the benefits of games to encourage teamworking are overstated, failing to acknowledge factors which make free-riding inevitable and very serious. How can we protect groups from this type of academic dishonesty? The pros and cons of games in business education Games are seen […]
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