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 »
Don’t start from scratch. Start with the evidence.
“Research shows that students learn more and are more likely to succeed when research-proven pedagogical techniques are used and learning environments are inclusive” (Boyer Commission, 2022, p. 25). This finding is so robust, many colleges and universities are including an emphasis on evidence-based teaching in their strategic plans. In the IU 2030 plan, one of… Read more »
Supporting Mental Health in the College Classroom
Since the Healthy Minds Network began their population-level survey of post-secondary student mental health, there has been a steady increase in the percentage of college students experiencing depression and/or anxiety. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 41% of college students experienced depression and 34% experienced anxiety. To put this in perspective, if you have 150 students… Read more »