SoTL News

Boyer's Model of Scholarship

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:05:45 -0700

Boyer (1997) highlights four components of a professor's scholarly engagement:

discovery - creating knowledge through traditional research
integration - apply and utilize knowledge across disciplines
application - address social problems through the application of research
teaching - apply scholarly rigor to the practice of teaching

For an…

Enhancing Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:08:28 -0700

There has been growing demand for workshops and materials to help those in higher education conduct and use the scholarship of teaching and learning. This book offers advice on how to do, share, and apply SoTL work to improve student learning and development. Written for college-level faculty members as well as faculty developers, administrators,…

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:25:33 -0700

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks has just published its latest issue at http://jaln.sloanconsortium.org/index.php/jaln. Please review the Table of Contents below, then visit http://www.sloanconsortium.org to review articles and items of interest.

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
Vol 15, No 4 (2011)
Table of Contents
http://jal…

SoTL Step #4: Analyzing the Evidence

Jean Mandernach — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:26:34 -0700

As explained on the University of Wisconsin LEADERSHIP SITE for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning :

At this point in the project, it is time to analyze the evidence that you have collected. This analysis will provide answers to the questions that you posed in the beginning of the project. Again, the analysis tools that you choose should fit…

SoTL Step #3: Collect the Data

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:36:26 -0700

As explained on the University of Wisconsin LEADERSHIP SITE for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:

If you plan to use human subjects/participants in your research, and you plan at some point to make the results of your research "public," then you will need to obtain permission to investigate these human subjects through your campus…

SoTL Step #2: Building Upon Other's Work

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:51:50 -0700

As explained on the University of Wisconsin LEADERSHIP SITE for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:

A second part of doing SoTL work is to review the literature that currently exists on the subject we wish to investigate. In short, what have others done that relates to this question? In this stage, one reads existing scholarship in relevant…

SoTL Step #1: Asking Learner-Centered Questions

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:03:30 -0700

As explained on the University of Wisconsin LEADERSHIP SITE for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:

All good investigative work begins with the asking of important, relevant, and significant questions. This is also how Scholarship of Teaching and Learning work begins. But suppose that you do not know what questions to ask, or what…

Elements of Quality Online Education: Engaging Communities

Jean Mandernach — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:19:12 -0700

As described by the publishers:

Online education has become the leading modality for distance education, and academic leadership expects online enrollment to grow as much as 25% per year. Thus, a central challenge to the nation is how to engage communities to make education "an ordinary part of everyday life." To address this challenge, leading…

5th Annual SoTL Commons Conference

Jean Mandernach — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:00:42 -0700

For improving student learning in higher education, the 5th annual SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) Commons Conference will be held March 7-9, 2012 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA: http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2012/index.htm. The submission of proposals period began September 1, 2011.

Also…

Top Journals Targeting SoTL in the Online Classroom

Jean Mandernach — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:13:05 -0700

Ranking of Computer-Mediated Learning Journals by Citations per Paper

Rank	Journal	2006-2010 citations per paper
1	European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning	16.91
2	Computers and Education	12.44
3	Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning	10.37
4	Educational Technology Research and…