September 15, 2022Disrupted Access and Success: Students’ Transition to University during COVIDby Jessie L. Moore60-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…
September 13, 2022Using Social Media to Support Student Peer Relationshipsby Claire Hamshire, Sophie Miller, Ellery Ewell, Christina Wyatt, and Mimi BenjaminAs 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…
September 8, 2022Increasing Accessibility to Academic Support in Higher Educationby Jessie L. Moore60-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…
September 6, 2022Limed: Teaching with a Twist Trailerby Matt WittsteinLimed: 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…
August 30, 2022Designing Learner-Centered Syllabiby Jessie L. Moore60-Second SoTL – Episode 1 This week’s episode explores how syllabus design can impact students’ motivation and their perceptions of the course and instructor. The episode features two recent publications from the open-access International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching…
August 24, 2022Universal Design in the Classroom: Quick Tips to Tryby Caroline J. Ketcham and Alexa DarbyUniversal Design applied to a classroom is the concept that structuring your course and course materials can simplify, enhance, and make accessible the learning in your classroom. It originally started with physical spaces and continues to expand into many areas…
August 12, 2022Mentoring for Learner Success: Mentoring is not (just) having a cup of coffee, part 3by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Cynthia Fair, and Caroline KetchamIn part 1 of this blog series, we introduced mentoring as more than (just) having a cup of coffee, and in part 2, we shared snapshots from our own experiences with mentoring relationships. In this final post in the series,…
August 10, 2022Mentoring for Learner Success: Mentoring is not (just) having a cup of coffee, part 2by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Cynthia Fair, and Caroline KetchamIn Part 1 of this blog series, we described mentoring as situated in a larger sociocultural context and understood holistically and longitudinally, rather than as a snapshot of a meaningful moment (e.g., having a cup of coffee). In this post,…
August 8, 2022Mentoring for Learner Success: Mentoring is not (just) having a cup of coffee, part 1by Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Cynthia Fair, and Caroline KetchamWhat comes to mind when you hear the word mentor? What images and emotions are evoked by the term mentoring? Acknowledging that the concept of mentoring has become ubiquitous, not only in higher education but also in popular culture and…
August 2, 2022A Quick but Necessary Chatby Caroline J. KetchamI have something on my mind that keeps coming up in my conversations around ableism in academia, neurodiversity in higher education, accommodations, universal design for learning (UDL), and topics in this realm. As I work to draft a couple blog…