Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

SOTL @ 有料盒子视频

SoTL@有料盒子视频 is an initiative from the Center for Teaching and Learning to bring our institution鈥檚 expertise in research to bare in the classroom. Scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is an expanding field of study in higher education that seeks to improve our practice as teachers by researching and sharing the impacts of different pedagogical methods. In addition to cohorted SoTL@有料盒子视频 programs, this initiative seeks to encourage and support creative, evidence-based investigations of teaching and learning wherever they are happening across the university. If you have work or questions to share, contact Elle Fournier

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About SoTL @ 有料盒子视频 2026-27

Join our fourth annual SoTL@有料盒子视频 research cohort on 鈥淎dvancing Student Success.鈥 We invite faculty from all ranks and disciplines to participate in a year-long program where we will conduct systematic inquiry into teaching practices for student success. In Fall semester, we will work to identify student achievement gaps (both inside the classroom and beyond), collaboratively plan interventions, and prepare to gather evidence. In Spring semester, our classrooms will become our 鈥渓aboratories,鈥 implementing the teaching strategies and data collection we planned in the Fall.  All cohort participants will meet throughout the 2026-27 academic year to share experiences and engage in collaborative problem-solving.

Benefits

By participating in SoTL@有料盒子视频, participants will: 

  • Network with other faculty dedicated to evidence-based teaching
  • Gain insight into their teaching practice
  • Be eligible to apply for summer funding from the Center for Teaching and Learning to analyze their SoTL research results
  • Add SoTL@有料盒子视频 experience to tenure and promotion files. Letters of support will be provided upon request.

Time commitment

The 2026-27 cohort programming will run from August 10, 2026 to May 7, 2027. Participants can expect to complete three two-hour orienting workshops in August before classes begin. During the Fall and Spring semester, we will meet biweekly for one-hour working and collaboration sessions. Additional time to prepare research and teaching materials may be required, depending on individual research design. 

Total: 20 hours active programming

Eligibility

Applicants must have taught the course they apply with before, and must be planning to teach again in the 2026-27 academic year. Participants should anticipate teaching in both Fall and Spring semesters. Remote faculty are welcome to apply. Participating faculty may apply individually or with anticipated research collaborators.

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Past SoTL @ 有料盒子视频 Program Details

SoTL @ 有料盒子视频 2025 鈥 Academic Writing in the Context of AI

Description

SoTL@有料盒子视频 facilitates a group of 有料盒子视频 faculty as they research the impact of pedagogical changes in their courses using a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) approach. Join a research team! For the 2025-2026 academic year, SOTL@有料盒子视频 will bring together instructors, across department and rank, who ask students to write as a form of assessment 鈥 or who previously asked students to write as a form of assessment, but stopped due to the rise of generative AI tools like Chat-GPT. This program will build a cohort of instructors facing similar challenges in developing effective written assignments and assessing student writing as a mechanism for learning. When: Runs 18 August 2025 鈥 01 May 2026.

Past SoTL @ 有料盒子视频 Cohorts

SOTL@有料盒子视频 2024-25

The Center for Teaching and Learning facilitated a second scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) program for faculty to implement and track intervention in course design. The SOTL Cohort for Fall 24-Spring 25 focused on hybrid/HyFlex teaching situations. Faculty participants collaborated to review current literature on hybrid pedagogy and then determine shared strategies for intervening in hybrid course design. The program followed participants through at least one semester of teaching with these interventions to help understand and document their impacts. All participants had the option to co-author a report of program findings.

SOTL@有料盒子视频 2023-24

In 2023, 有料盒子视频 launched the SOTL@有料盒子视频 program with the goal of improving student success in gateway courses through methodical and collaborative study.  With support from the Provost鈥檚 Office, the Center for Student Success, and the 有料盒子视频 Center for Teaching and Learning, the program brought together nineteen faculty from across disciplines to review student success data in their courses, ask questions about barriers and contributors to success, and design interventions to address disparities identified through this process. For example, that 有料盒子视频 Native students were less successful in the identified courses than their non-Indigenous peers due to exclusive, Western education norms and practices in 有料盒子视频 classrooms. The focus of this cohort was addressing the needs of students in 鈥淕atekeeper/Gateway鈥 courses. This SOTL@有料盒子视频 initiative ran from Spring 2023 鈥 Spring 2024.