Academic & Digital Development

Writing for the Learning and Teaching Conference

17 Oct

Date: Thursday 17 October 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch

In this session we will look at what makes a good L&T conference submission. Taking the call to the 2025 conference as our starting point, we will consider how we might start to frame an abstract: from choosing a topic, aligning it to the conference themes, and writing an appealing title. We will also take some of the successful submissions from previous years in order to see what makes a successful presentation.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Identify

30 Oct

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is identification. How do we decide which themes and topics we would like to explore through our SoTL enquiry? Maybe the student feedback for the course has identified some issues that we would like to explore, perhaps our reflections on last year’s teaching have highlighted an area for a possible SoTL project, or alternatively we might like to consider how to redesign one of our course assessments. In this session we will consider various possibilities for identifying SoTL projects, whether individually or collaboratively.

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Engaging International Students in Active Learning

05 Nov

Date: Tuesday 05 November 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This session will offer an overview of the specific transition challenges of international students and introduce approaches on how to engage them more actively in their learning and include them in the classroom community as a whole.

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Interculturality and the International Classroom

12 Nov

Date: Tuesday 12 November 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

Teaching at the University of Glasgow increasingly entails regular interaction with students from a variety of geographical and academic cultures. While this brings enriching and rewarding experiences, the international classroom challenges us as teachers to (re)think how we engage with our students interculturally. This interactive workshop will offer a space to identify and overcome barriers to interculturality – the equitable interaction of diverse cultures – in the classroom.

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Decolonising the Curriculum in your Discipline

19 Nov

Date: Tuesday 19 November 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

In this workshop, we will consider our teaching materials and practices through the lens of decoloniality. The workshop will introduce the Decolonising the Curriculum wheel (Musharrat Ahmed-Landeryou 2023) as a possible framework to plan, assess and review any changes we would like to make informed by decoloniality.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Plan

27 Nov

Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month the focus of our SoTL journey is planning. Once we have identified what we would like our SoTL to focus on, how are we going to put this into practice? Maybe we would like to make changes to our own teaching practices, perhaps we have questions that we would like to answer by exploring the relevant literature, maybe we are contemplating an evaluation of past or current teaching and learning in our discipline. In this session we discuss strategies for developing a successful SoTL plan.

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Writing a Staff Student Partnership Scheme (SSPS) Application

21 Jan

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The Learning and Teaching Development Fund (LTDF) supports developments in the practice of learning and teaching that will make significant contributions to the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University and to the delivery of the objectives of the Learning and Teaching Strategy. This call for bids is specifically targeted at partnership work between students and members of academic staff.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Design

29 Jan

Date: Wednesday 29 January 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We begin the new year by looking at how best to design a SoTL project. Whether we are contemplating embarking on a literature review, designing a learning and teaching intervention or undertaking an evaluation of a previous intervention, it is vital to spend time planning at the outset. In this session we will consider the main methodologies that we might use for a SoTL project, and the methods associated with each.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Write

26 Feb

Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This session is aimed at colleagues who would like to know more about the SoTL Funding Scheme and are interested in applying. We will look through the call for bids for 2025-26 and consider which types of project might be eligible. Members of the network who have been successful in their bids will be available to talk about their projects and offer advice.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Investigate

26 Mar

Date: Wednesday 26 March 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is investigation. Once we have identified a possible SoTL project and decided on a project design, how do we begin our investigation? In this session we ask questions about how to establish which resources we might need, how much time we have to dedicate to our project and who else might be available to support us.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Disseminate

30 Apr

Date: Wednesday 30 April 2025
Time: 12::00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month we consider how to develop a dissemination strategy for SoTL practitioners. We will begin with a series of questions which are designed to help us to build our personal plan for dissemination before looking at some of the pathways for publication which are available for UofG colleagues internally and externally. Examples of successful SoTL publications will be provided in order to help us to plan for our own publications.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

28 May

Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We end our SoTL journey this year as we began, with reflection. In this session we each take time to look back at our previous learning, teaching and SoTL activities and celebrate any successes we have had, however large or small these might be

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