The scholarship of teaching and learning in Canada : institutional impact / Nicola Simmons, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, Nicola, editor.

Series:

New directions for teaching and learning ; number 146.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Canada--Faculty.

Universities and colleges.

College teachers--Canada.

College teachers.

Learning and scholarship--Canada.

Learning and scholarship.

Education--Study and teaching (Higher)--Canada.

Education.

Education--Study and teaching (Higher).

Universities and colleges--Faculty.

Canada.

Physical Description:

107 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2016.

Summary:

"The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a growing area in which post-secondary educators from any discipline investigate their teaching and their students' learning, sharing those results with others. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning is to provide examples and evidence of the ways in which post-secondary institutions in Canada have developed and sustained programs around the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning that impact the institutional pedagogical climate"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The History of SoTL in Canada: Answering Calls for Action / Nicola Simmons, Gary Poole

The Canadian Teaching Commons: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Canadian Higher Education / Brad Wuetherick, Stan Yu

The Intentional Design of a SoTL Initiative / Cheryl Amundsen, Esma Emmioglu, Veronica Hotton, Gregory Hum, Cindy Xin

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at Renaissance College (University of New Brunswick): A Case Study of SoTL at the Faculty Level / Thomas Mengel

Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the McMaster Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning / Elizabeth Marquis, Arshad Ahmad

SoTL(2): Inquiring into the Impact of Inquiry / Janice Miller-Young, Michelle Yeo, Karen Manarin, Miriam Carey, Jim Zimmer

Exploring the SoTL Landscape at the University of Saskatchewan / Brad Wuetherick, Stan Yu, Jim Greer

Reconceptualizing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the University of Waterloo: An Account of Influences and Impact / Julie A. Timmermans, Donna E. Ellis

The Role of Small Significant Networks and Leadership in the Institutional Embedding of SoTL / Roselynn Verwoord, Gary Poole

Building Sustained Action: Supporting an Institutional Practice of SoTL at the University of Guelph / Natasha Kenny, Gavan P. L. Watson, Serge Desmarais

Synthesizing SoTL Institutional Initiatives toward National Impact / Nicola Simmons.

Notes:

"Summer 2016"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119272410

1119272416

OCLC:

933589841