Data-Driven Reflection on Teaching
60-Second SoTL – Episode 5 This week’s episode features an open-access article from the International Journal for Academic Development, examining how graphical representations of classroom practices can help instructors reflect on their teaching: Wood, Anna K., Hazel Christie, Jill R….
What’s the Risk? Student Perspective on Work-Integrated Learning
Sonia Ferns, Matthew Campbell, and Karsten Zegwaard describe work-integrated learning (WIL) as “internationally recognized . . . as a strategy for ensuring students are exposed to authentic learning experiences with the opportunity to apply theoretical concepts to practice-based tasks, ultimately…
Institutional Diversity Messaging in Higher Education
60-Second SoTL – Episode 4 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Teaching and Learning Inquiry on institutional messaging about diversity, inclusion, and equity in higher education. The featured project offers a great example of student-as-partners in scholarship of teaching and…
Assessing Risk in Work-Integrated Learning
What is WIL (Work-Integrated Learning)? Work-integrated learning (WIL) refers to student-centered internships, co-ops, field placements, and other experiences that connect classroom learning with real work experience, fostering personal and professional skills that are beneficial for career exploration and development. Though…
Critical Service Learning: Letters with Incarcerated People
Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 1 Dr. Lucy Arnold from the University of North Carolina Charlotte shares with the show her plans for having students write letters with incarcerated people. Panelists Vanessa Drew-Branch, Phillip Motley, and Sophie Miller…
Disrupted Access and Success: Students’ Transition to University during COVID
60-Second SoTL – Episode 3 This week’s episode features an open-access article from SOTL in the South about how the pandemic impacted students’ transitions to higher education: Inglis, Helen, Celeste Combrinck, and Zach Simpson. 2022. “Disrupted Access and Success: Students’ Transition…
Using Social Media to Support Student Peer Relationships
As academics from a large, modern UK university (Claire) and a medium-sized public US university (Mimi), we have been working with the Center for Engaged Learning as attendees in the (Re)Examining Meaningful Learning Experiences research seminar series for the last…
Increasing Accessibility to Academic Support in Higher Education
60-Second SoTL – Episode 2 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Teaching & Learning Inquiry (published by the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) and explores how academic support services could be made more accessible…
Limed: Teaching with a Twist Trailer
Limed: Teaching with a Twist is a podcast that plays with pedagogy. Each episode features the voices and ideas of diverse faculty, staff, and students who workshop our guest’s real challenges and opportunities for their classrooms. The show is produced in…