Faculty Academy on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

About SoTL

The SoTL Academy is a three-semester series of meetings and shared learning. These meetings will create community and provide structure to support faculty pursuing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Academy members will participate in meetings from August 2024 through January 2026. By the end of the academy, participants will have designed and implemented a research project, and will be prepared for presentation or publication.

The SoTL Academy is open to full-time faculty and teaching staff. The Academy will facilitate participants’:

  • exploration of current SoTL scholarship,
  • development of a research question and research techniques,
  • knowledge and application of the steps in a research project,
  • opportunity to learn from other practitioners, and plan for dissemination.

The SoTL Academy will foster a common cultural dialogue of research-based teaching practices across campuses and academic domains. Participants will work together to refine research questions and methodologies. Participants will develop quantitative and/or qualitative measures to analyze pedagogical practices, leading to a better understanding of how to affect student success and well-being. SoTL’s implicit emphasis on the public sharing of results will support growing faculty dialogue about scholarly teaching and student engagement. The Academy will provide the University of North Georgia (UNG) faculty and teaching staff an opportunity for ongoing professional development and a growing community of fellow practitioners of SoTL, ultimately fostering excellence in research, teaching, and learning.

The SoTL and HIP Academies occur on a rotating basis.

Apply

Deadline: Tuesday, August, 20, 2024

Application Documents

  1. Curriculum Vitae
    1. If you are part of a research group, apply as a single group. Upload one person’s CV to represent the group or upload all participants’ CVs as a single PDF
  2. Statement of interest should include the following:
    1. Description of a research topic/question you would like to develop/investigate over the course of this academy. What course/workshop/other educational situation will you use for this investigation?
    2. Description of your level of experience in SoTL or other educational research. Applicants without a background in SoTL are encouraged to apply.
    3. Explain how you would expect this academy to support your professional goals and contribute to knowledge in your department, college, and/or discipline.
    4. If you are part of a research group and plan to join together, please explain who is in the group and answer questions above as a single group. One person should apply and co-applicants can be listed on the electronic application form.

Selection Process

The Steering Committee will review faculty applications and select a cohort. Applicants will submit a CV highlighting their research and teaching history and a statement of interest including specific research topic(s) for a SoTL project.

SoTL Faculty Calendar

SoTL Faculty Academy Outcomes

Participants will:

  1. Attend sessions and mentoring for deep learning on SoTL, implementation of a SoTL project, and dissemination of findings
  2. Interact with SoTL scholars
  3. Explore current scholarship and cultivate an awareness of latest developments in the field
  4. Become familiar with common design practices
  5. Choose an appropriate pedagogical practice to measure for course outcomes
  6. Disseminate design and results in professional circles

SoTL Faculty Academy Leadership

Director

SoTL Librarian


Mentors

Speakers

  • Shelley Aikman, Department of Psychological Science

Drs. Mary Carney and Laura Ng wrote a grant (Presidential Innovation Award) that partially funded the pilot of this academy in 2014. CTLL is thankful for their founding contributions.