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MegaSoTL: Supporting Pedagogical Research across Multiple Institutions
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Nasrollahian Mojarad, Sara; Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2022
MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
An Efficient and Coherent Pipeline for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Educational Development
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Mann, Daniel; Mahavongtrakul, Matthew; Hooper, Ashley – To Improve the Academy, 2021
As higher education shifts toward a culture of evidence-based teaching practices, future faculty are seeking opportunities to develop their pedagogical knowledge and skills. Many centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) have not proportionally grown in resources to meet the demand for graduate student and postdoctoral scholar programming (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Education, Student Development, Scholarship
Leveraging Collaboration and Peer Support to Initiate and Sustain a Faculty Development Program
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Coria-Navia, Anneris; Moncrieff, Scott – To Improve the Academy, 2021
In today's impoverished higher education fiscal climate, especially considering the enormous financial implications to higher education of accommodating the changes required by the coronavirus pandemic, "nonessential" though highly important programs, such as centers for teaching and learning (CTLs), are very likely to be underfunded. In…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning
What's the Problem Now?
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Bass, Randall – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Revisiting an essay from 1999, this article explores the current conditions in higher education, and society more broadly, that help shape the roles for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and educational development. By seeing the current "crises" of higher education not only as "problems" to be investigated but as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Educational Change, Educational Development
Building a Social Network around SoTL through Digital Space
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Sipes, Shannon M.; Minix, Amy L.; Barton, Matt – To Improve the Academy, 2020
In an effort to increase visibility of and access to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) work on one campus, a collaboration formed between a faculty developer, a librarian, and a media specialist within a center for teaching and learning (CTL). Building on the frameworks of community of practice, professional learning network, and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning
Writing Renewal Retreats: The Scholarly Writer, Contemplative Practice, and Scholarly Productivity
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Brantmeier, Edward; Molloy, Cathryn; Byrne, Jennifer – To Improve the Academy, 2017
This article offers an exploratory case study of a program for faculty that blends contemplative practices, scholarly productivity, and renewal of faculty as writers at a retreat in a natural setting. We share faculty learning outcomes, logistics, a retreat agenda, and evaluation data from four writing renewal retreats conducted over two years to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Writing (Composition), Productivity, Scholarship