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Students’ Experiences with the Syllabus

60-Second SoTL – Episode 65 What if most syllabus “best practices” are built on limited evidence or studies with inauthentic contexts for how students experience these course documents? This episode features on open-access article that explores students’ experiences with syllabi they’re…

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Re-thinking SoTL for the Age of GenAI

60-Second SoTL – Episode 64 How might the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning evolve when humans and generative AI are deeply entangled? This episode highlights an open-access article that offers five propositions, each paired with GenAI prompts, to help SoTL scholars…

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Knowledge Surveys for Student Self-Assessment of Learning

60-Second SoTL – Episode 63 How can knowledge surveys strengthen students’ self-assessment and metacognition? This episode highlights a multi-semester study from the U.S. Air Force Academy on using knowledge surveys to help students better gauge their understanding and direct their learning….

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Professional Learning Needs of University Teachers

60-Second SoTL – Episode 62 What do university teachers say they need from professional development related to teaching and learning? This episode focuses on an open-access article on participants’ self-identified learning needs in professional development programs for professors, senior scientific staff,…

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Allocating Time for Multiple Choice Tests

60-Second SoTL – Episode 60 How much time should students have to take online, multiple-choice tests? That’s the focus of the open-access Teaching & Learning Inquiry article featured in this week’s 60-second SoTL: Kennette, Lynne N., and Dawn McGuckin. 2025. “Best…

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Building Trust through Feedback

60-Second SoTL – Episode 60 This episode features an open access article on building trust through feedback with relationship-building conditions and agency-promoting practices: Bayraktar, Breana, Kiruthika Ragupathi, and Katherine A. Troyer. 2025. “Building Trust Through Feedback: A Conceptual Framework for Educators.” Teaching…

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The Role of Trust in Peer Support Programs

60-Second SoTL – Episode 57 This episode features an open access article exploring how peer support initiatives can facilitate meaningful relationships and sense of belonging when they attend to social connection, shared experience and culture, and interpersonal trust: Hamshire, Claire, Mimi…

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Metacognitive Intervention and Student Success

60-Second SoTL – Episode 56 This week’s episode focuses on a metacognitive intervention for first-year students on academic probation and features an open access article from Teaching & Learning Inquiry: Swanson, Holly J., and Bryan Dewsbury. 2024. “The Impact of a Metacognitive…