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: SoTL Process
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 […]
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 […]
Planning for serendipitous SoTL
A common topic of conversation for those of us who engage in SoTL, or who support others who do so, is the problem of obtaining ethical approval for SoTL projects that emerge at short notice. Having ethical approval in place before starting a SoTL project is obviously vital – we need to have carefully thought […]
Can the ‘research onion’ help your thinking around the philosophical and methodological underpinnings of your SoTL project?
Author: Paula Karlsson-Brown @researchingrisk I recently did an assignment for my MEd in Academic Practice studies, which involved me designing a substantial project proposal and pitching it to a fictional funder. I had very limited time and only a few slides at my disposal for the pitch, so I needed to present my study quickly and as clearly as possible. I figured that a visual […]
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 […]
Research Data Management
Research data management refers to the management of research materials over the lifecycle of a research project. This includes (but is not restricted to) the following activities: Preparation of a data management plan for you research Creation of documentation to describe and augment the data Depositing data (and associated documentation) in a repository for long-term […]
Smita’s SoTL Journey
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