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 »
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 »
In his 2019 monograph, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein defends the importance of developing a diverse skillset to achieve career success through a close investigation of some of the world’s top performers and experts. Generalists, he argues, are creative, out-of-the-box problem-solvers who fully embrace the power of knowing a little… Read more »
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 »
If you are looking for suggestions for summer reading, you might turn to Google only to discover it seems everyone has a reading list. PBS has a list of America’s 100 most-loved books. Local county libraries have formal summer reading programs for kids and adults. Newspapers and magazines publish summer reading lists. Even celebrities have… Read more »
As the fall semester begins, instructors are finalizing syllabi, including the grading scale. On the first day of class (i.e. syllabus day) students will eagerly flip through (or scroll the LMS) to locate the grading scale. What will they need to do to earn enough points to get the grade they want? We spend hours… Read more »