Grades should be a useful communication tool aimed at helping students understand their learning progress in a course. Unfortunately, they often fall short, leaving both instructor and students frustrated and disappointed. How can we improve this dynamic and maximize the communication power of grades? What do grades in your courses tell you and your students… Read more »
8th Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Following a hiatus during summer 2024, I’m happy to release the 8th annual summer reading list of some of the CITL staff’s favorite teaching and learning focused books they’ve read over the past academic year. This year we are sharing five great titles on documenting teaching, generative AI, and relationship rich teaching. If this is… Read more »
What is a T-Shaped Student and why should that be our goal?
Universities are excellent at creating disciplinary expertise at all levels. We ask incoming students to choose a major during the first year, often before even showing up on campus. Then we ask them to take classes in this chosen discipline for years. Upon graduation students may enter the workforce or they may enter graduate school… Read more »
Elevate Your Teaching: Join Us at ISSOTL24!
Join us at the annual International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference and take the next step in your journey as a scholarly educator. Engage with diverse perspectives, discover new teaching strategies, and build lasting professional relationships. Unlike discipline-specific conferences, ISSOTL brings together scholars from a wide-range of disciplines, fostering cross-pollination… Read more »
What’s it like to attend an ISSOTL Conference?
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) is the primary professional organization for SoTL, particularly for scholars in the US who do not have regional organizations such as STLHE (Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) in Canada and LatinSoTL in Latin America and the Caribbean. Regardless of geographical and… Read more »
Recognizing Impact and Reinvigorating Practice: 20 Years of ISSOTL
In 1998 the Carnegie foundation launched the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Higher Education program with the goal to “render teaching public, subject to critical evaluation, and usable by others in both the scholarly and the general community.” It was through this program that the International Society for the Scholarship… Read more »