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Two light-skinned young people are shown from behind as they sit at a table at the back of a classroom. They look behind themselves, to something beyond the visible image. In front of them, toward the front of the classroom, many other young people of varying gender and skin tone sit at rows of tables and face the front of the classroom. A medium-skinned woman stands at the front of the classroom, gesturing out toward the rows of young people. Behind her is a projected image that is not discernable from this distance. The same image is projected in multiple locations on every wall of the classroom.

December 19, 2022

PowerPointers: Making the Most of Slide Decks

by Matt Wittstein and Dhvani Toprani

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 4 Dr. Sarah Morrison-Smith is a new faculty member at Hamilton College, where the institutional culture leans away from PowerPoint in the classroom. Our panel of Jill McSweeney, Scott Spurlock, and Christina Wyatt…

December 15, 2022

Future-Oriented Feedback

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 15 Featuring an open-access article from the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, this episode explores how feedback type, feedback orientation, and goal orientation inform feedback effectiveness for student learning: Paulson Gjerde, Kathy, Deborah Skinner, and…

"What types of edits can you (and can't you) make at each stage of book production?" On the right, there are two screenshots: on top is a Word document showing edits made with Track Changes (copyediting) and below is a PDF of a book page in Adobe Acrobat with edits and comments showing (page proofs).

December 13, 2022

Academic Book Publishing: Making Edits during Each Stage of Production

by Jennie Goforth

The book production process is long, and it can sometimes seem complicated. Once you submit your book manuscript, you’ll have several opportunities to make edits. However, there are major differences about what kinds of edits you can make at each…

A group of people stand in front of a house with a grass roof. One person is pointing to something ahead of the group but out of frame. An overlay reads, "Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts."

December 8, 2022

Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 14 This week’s episode features an article from the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and explores how faculty and staff support learning and development when they mentor undergraduate research in global contexts: Cruz, Laura, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Amy L….

Two people sit at a table with a book open in front of them. One points at a line with a pencil, while the other person rests their hand on the page. An overlay reads, "Staff Experiences Supporting Diverse Learners"

November 24, 2022

Staff Experiences Supporting Students from Equity Groups

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 13 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Studies in Higher Education and examines academic and support staff members’ experiences supporting low socio-economic status and non-traditional students: Macqueen, Suzanne, Erica Southgate, and Jill Scevak. (2022). “Supporting students from equity groups:…

A map of the world showing countries where users have downloaded CEL's open access books. At the top reads "A Global Audience: The books in the Center for Engaged Learning's Open Access Book Series have been viewed by scholars in 124 countries across the globe." In Dec 2019-Aug 2022: 20,736 unique pageviews. Countries with 1000+ pageviews: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan. Countries with 100-999 pageviews: Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, New Zealand, Austria, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, France, South Africa, Malaysia, and Norway. Countries with 1-100 pageviews: most of the countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and several in Africa.

November 22, 2022

Open Access and Usage: Downloads, Citations, and Geographic Diversity

by Jennie Goforth

A common motivation for authors choosing to publish open access is a desire to reach a larger, broader audience (Pyne et al. 2019). And although usage statistics can be complex and many publishers are secretive about their print runs, research…

November 21, 2022

Place-Based Learning Along the Duwamish

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 3 Dr. Ben Machado, from South Seattle College, recently received a grant to incorporate place-based learning into his introductory biology classroom. Panelists Kelsey Bitting, Scott Morrison, and Dani Toma-Harrold provide ideas and insight…

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November 17, 2022

Feedback Encounters

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 12 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and explores feedback encounters as a framework for studying feedback processes: Jensen, Lasse X., Margaret Bearman, and David Boud. 2022. “Feedback Encounters:…

two students sit in front of a computer screen. One of them points at the computer while the other looks at it. "When it comes to supporting mentoring relationships, one-size initiatives don't fit all relationships"

November 15, 2022

Mentoring for Learner Success: Multiple Pathways to Mentoring Relationships

by Jessie L. Moore and Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler

Mentoring relationships develop in relationship-rich environments (Vandermaas-Peeler and Moore 2022). In higher education contexts, they might evolve from other meaningful relationships like teaching, advising, supervising, and coaching, but they require time to become more reciprocal and mutually beneficial (Mullen and…

November 10, 2022

Teaching Race and Racial Justice

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 11 This episode features the Nancy Chick Article of the Year for the 2021 volume of Teaching and Learning Inquiry (announced at the 2022 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference) and examines course-planning…