| Title: |
ON DEMAND: SoTL Collaboratory: A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Resource for Instructors, Faculty Developers, and Administrators |
| Authors: |
Lukes, Laura; Henry, Dayna; Liesl Baum; Melissa Wells; Kim Case; Lindsey Wheeler; Ed Brantmeier; Jessica Taggart; Sharrell Hassell-Goodman; Sophia Abbot |
| Source: |
Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings; Vol. 13 (2021): Fostering Inclusive Excellence ; 2379-8432 ; 10.13021/itlcp.2021 |
| Publisher Information: |
Mason Publishing, George Mason University Libraries |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Description: |
What is SoTL? The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic study of teaching and learning in higher education with the goal of improving student learning, including examining classroom practice in a scholarly way, researching teaching and learning across programs or student populations, and sharing work through publication. What is the SoTL Collaboratory? SoTL Collaboratory Website: https://sotl.gmu.edu Broadly speaking, the SoTL Collaboratory is a group of educational developers and graduate students from a few institutions in Virginia (George Mason Univeristy, University of Virginia, VA Tech, James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University of Mary Washington) who gather regularly to exchange SoTL programming and leadership ideas, strengthen individual SoTL support planning efforts, and collectively work towards creating shared resources that enable SoTL leader success beyond our individual institutions. The SoTL Collaboratory during AY2020-2021 consisted of a proto-regional community of practice (CoP) for faculty developers and future faculty developers.The project is funded in part by a grant from 4-VA,a collaborative partnership for advancing the Commonwealth of Virginia The first main SoTL Collaboratory project goal during the AY2020-2021 was to build a proto-regional community of practice for faculty developers at Virginia institutions who offer programming to support SoTLers at their institution. SoTL Collaboratory members met regularly to exchange ideas and resources, contribute to a regional SoTL support model repository (which evolved into SoTL Strategic Planning Tool Development), give feedback on the strategic plans for SoTL at our institutions (that we are each developing), and explore ways that we can “share” the workload in the future through offering cross-institutional SoTL programming for our faculty. As part of this knowledge exchange and work towards establishing cross-institutional program offerings, George Mason University opened it's ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
https://journals.gmu.edu/ITLCP/article/view/3089 |
| DOI: |
10.13021/itlcp.2021.3089 |
| Availability: |
https://journals.gmu.edu/ITLCP/article/view/3089; https://doi.org/10.13021/itlcp.2021.3089 |
| Rights: |
Copyright (c) 2021 Authors and George Mason University Publishing ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.41B97C2B |
| Database: |
BASE |