Trigwell
Shulman
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The inaugural conference by the newly formed International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IS-SOTL) will be offered on the IU Bloomington campus Oct. 21-24.
The event is being promoted as a way to bring together “international scholars and educators to foster and disseminate inquiry into ways to improve post secondary learning and teaching.”
The opening plenary features Keith Trigwell, reader in higher education at the University of Oxford’s Institute for the Advancement of University Learning. Trigwell’s presentation, “Student Learning and the Scholarship of Teaching/Learning,” is described as focusing on a “conception of the scholarship of teaching/learning that aims to accommodate current teaching/learning thinking while remaining supportive of the aims central to the project of developing a scholarship of teaching and learning.”
Additional plenary presenters are: Lee Shulman, president the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Randall Bass, executive director at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University; and Dan Bernstein, director at the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas.
The conference will feature three tracks: Transforming teaching, learning and scholarship (including issues of diversity and identity); Making scholarship of teaching and learning visible in the disciplines; and Campus programs and international perspectives.
The IS-SOTL seeks to foster and make public the highest quality scholarship about teaching and learning in higher education. Faculty members, graduate students, researchers, instructional designers and other educator-scholars are welcome to attend all programs of the meeting.
According to a press release, the IS-SOTL conference is a place to learn as well as a place to inform. Attending pre-conference workshops will help educators update their knowledge in a range of settings from hands-on instruction to collaborative work.
The conference will also provide a place for debate. The discussions generated at workshops, formal panels, concurrent sessions and special interest groups will help to shape future perspectives, intersections, and directions of scholarship of teaching and learning.
Registration is available online or on-site during the conference.
http://www.is-sotl.indiana.edu
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