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Scholarship in Teaching and Learning (SOTL) – and why
bother with it?Fiona Saunders, Senior Lecturer in School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Email: [email protected] @FionaCSaunders
Bland Tomkinson, Visiting Lecturer in School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Email: [email protected]
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Aims and Purpose To spark interest in
“Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning” as a valuable and
legitimate scholarly activity
To fulfill the requirements of
the HEA professional standards
framework
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Structure of the Session1. What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
2. Small projects: getting started and getting reported.
3. Individual exercise: Getting started - Highlighting experiences and laying the foundations for a SOTL roadmap
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Definitions of SOTL
“work that encourages an empirical examination of teaching in relation to student learning”
Darling, 2003
“SOTL is a systematic reflection on teaching and learning made public”
Illinois State University in McKinney, 2004
“opening lines of inquiry into significant issues in the teaching and learning of the field”
Hutchings, 2000
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Why is SOTL important?
• Changed HE environment and eco-system– More diverse student body– Increasing focus on teaching, e.g. tuition fees, student satisfaction
surveys– Availability of learning technology
• More important than ever to understand how, why and when our students learn
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Challenges in 21st Century Pedagogy
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Pedagogy by Andrew Churches
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What does SOTL involve?
Engaging with extant knowledge
Public sharing
Self reflection
Martin et al., 1999
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Some examples of SOTL projects
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What sorts of questions do SOTL researchers ask?
What might be possible ?
What works ?
What is ?How to formulate new models and
conceptual frameworks ?
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Differentiating SOTL from pedagogic research
• Critical reflective component
• Focus on specific rather than generalised teaching and learning contexts
• Does not emphasise the generation and evaluation of general theory
Haigh, 2010
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Why would an already busy academic wish to engage with SOTL?
How often do you sharpen your teaching and learning axe?
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Structure of the Session1. What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
2. Small projects: getting started and getting reported.
3. Individual exercise: Getting started - Highlighting experiences and laying the foundations for a SOTL roadmap
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Getting started with small projects
Why small projects?• Small projects can span the boundary between
scholarship of teaching and learning and of pedagogic research.
• Small projects can put scholarship into action and can form the foundation for more rigorous pedagogic research.
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Useful Resources
• https://my.vanderbilt.edu/sotl/
• http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-eps/college/stem/getting-started-in-stem-pedagogic-optimised.pdf
• http://exchange.ac.uk/downloads/ped-r-toolkit.pdf
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Getting started with small projects
I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
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Getting started with small projects – What?
“Find a real life problem in your teaching and seek to investigate it ”
“Find something you are passionate about”
“Start small and set time limits ”
“Be pragmatic – find out what would be most valued or attract support resources and start with these”
“Search across disciplines for literature and practice”
Adapted from Hutchings, 2000
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Getting started with small projects – Why?
• Fame and fortune? Papers on pedagogy don’t carry much weight in achieving international fame. BUT, they can give you an edge in job applications and promotion.
• Improving your students’ learning experience? Constant reflection can be an important element in honing your teaching skills and a small project may give you evidence to help to do this.
• Helping others to improve their teaching? A noble aim, but it does mean that any project has to have a good dissemination strategy.
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Getting started with small projects – When?
• Small projects can be undertaken at any time but it is helpful to have some funding, eg to employ a postgraduate student to do some analysis.– The university usually has a small amount of funding available each year
– though the timescales involved can be quite tight.– Subject, or professional, bodies sometimes have funds available for
small teaching projects.– Agencies like the Higher Education Academy often have small grants
available – though these may be limited in scope.
• The HEA website lists many possible calls for funding bids, together with their closing dates, not just from within the HEA.
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Getting started with small projects – How?How to get the funding
• Any study needs to start with aims, objectives and research questions.
• Framing the research questions – most calls for funding bids will specify a need for including the research questions. Many will be constrained by a particular funding theme.
• Remember that even doing it yourself will involve costs: eg printing, travel, books.
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Getting started with small projects – How?How to do it
• Quantitative v Qualitative methods.• Qualitative methods can include:
– Questionnaires– Interviews
• Quantitative methods can include:– Psychometric tests: do you have access to such test?
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Getting started with small projects – Where?
• On your own or with colleagues – in the same school or elsewhere? Comparative studies can often add value.
• Some funding calls require collaborative bids – this usually means that it is essential to involve other universities or, just possibly, colleges or employers.
• International collaborations may give access to funds otherwise denied you – some US funders will allow collaboration, but will not fund studies outside the US.
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Getting started with small projects – Who?
• Do you intend to do this on your own or employ postgraduate students or other researchers?
• Do you wish to initiate the project with other colleagues: who will do what?
• You may need to involve colleagues with special skills eg psychometrics, non-parametric statistics
• Who will write it up?
• Who are the subjects of the study?• Do you have/ will you get their consent?• YOU WILL NEED ETHICS APPROVAL.
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Getting published with small projects
• What sort of journal should you aim for?– Higher education journals: eg
IJAD, HERD, IETI– Subject journals.– Discipline education journals:
eg Electrical Engineering Education. .
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Structure of the Session1. What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
2. Small projects: getting started and getting reported.
3. Individual exercise: Laying the foundations for a SOTL roadmap
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This is all very interesting but what
about me?
I haven’t done any teaching yet
Lab demonstrating
Dissertation supervision
PhD supervision
Small group tutorials
Other teaching assistant duties
Academic advising
What about these activities?
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Individual ExerciseNAP assessment involves developing a “Scholarship in Teaching
and Learning” development plan
1 page plan that maps out a series of SOTL activities that you will engage in over the next 24 months
Ideas• new journals or areas of reading• reflection on existing teaching practice• potential changes to be made to teaching practice• attendance at events
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Contact DetailsFiona Saunders, School of MACE
[email protected] @FionaCSaunderswww.fionasaunders.co.uk
Bland Tomkinson, School of MACEEmail: [email protected]