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OfflineBoyer (1997) expanded the notion of "scholarship" to encompass a broader understanding of what it means to be an academic.
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 overview of each of these forms of scholarships, see the attached article by Marta Nibert.
OfflineEnhancing Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Enhancing Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Challenges and Joys of Juggling (McKinney, 2007) provides a practical, applied look at the growing need for scholarly teaching in higher education.
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, academic staff, and graduate students, this book will also help undergraduate students collaborating with faculty on SoTL projects. Though targeted at…
OfflineJournal 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 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://jaln.sloanconsortium.org/index.php/jaln/issue/view/27
Learning technology and organizations: transformational impact
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Learning technology…
OfflineYou've created your questions, completed your literature review and collected the necessary data... now its time to see what you've got and analyze your data!
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 the questions that you asked, and the data that you collected.
Analytic tools to consider:
- close reading
- thick description
- compare against a…
OfflineThis stage of your research project involves determining the methods you will use to collect the evidence you need to answer your question. There are many methods available to researchers, and the key is to find the method that best fits your research question, and that will give you the best evidence (data) to answer your question. It is also important at this stage of the research process to decide “who” you will want to gather evidence from (students, faculty, support staff, texts, etc).
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 Institutional Review Board. This Review Board's mission is to insure that research participants are treated fairly and ethically. Each campus has their own…
OfflineResearch doesn't exist in a vacuum... every idea builds on the successes (and failures) of all the previous work in the field. As such, it is essential to start with a working knowledge of what has already been done on your topic.
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 subject areas, reflects on how one's research project builds on the knowledge generated by others, and investigates theoretical frameworks that can…
OfflineGood SoTL research starts with an ability to approach your investigation with quality, effective questions that target the heart of teaching and learning.
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 constitutes a significant question, or how to ask important questions. Because most of us did not receive training in graduate school on how to ask…
OfflineElements of Quality Online Education: Engaging Communities
Sloan-C recently released a new book, Elements of Quality Online Education: Engaging Communities.
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 scholars and practitioners from forty colleges, universities and organizations gathered at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's annual invitational summer…
OfflineFor 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.
OfflineTop Journals Targeting SoTL in the Online Classroom
One means of examining the value of a potential journal outlet is to look at citation rankings. This information provides a snapshot of the frequency by which a particular journal is cited by others. Matt Elbeck (Troy University) provides a ranking of the main journals that feature research about online learning and teaching (computer-mediated learning).
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 Development | 9.49 |
5 | The Internet and Higher Education | 7.92 |
6 | Journal for Asynchronous Learning Networks | 6.82 |
7 | Australasian… |
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