Call for Proposals
SOTL Academy 2010
Taking a Closer Look
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Call for Proposals Due Date: December 1, 2009
Conference Dates: May 17-18, 2010
The SOTL Academy 2010 invites proposals for presentations of work in the area of the scholarship of teaching and learning. This conference seeks to bring together all members of the academy engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) and to provide a forum for presenting new SOTL work, for sharing reflections on SOTL and its role within the academy, and networking with others engaged in this enterprise.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning seeks to restore teaching to its proper place of importance in the academy by building a scholarship around teaching and learning. The goal is to encourage faculty to use their own classrooms as sites for research to rigorously explore student learning, and then to go public in order to enable others to build on the work they are doing.
Applications are encouraged from experts and novices in this field, at all career stages. We are particularly interested in bringing new and future faculty into the SOTL community this year. If you are a doctoral student or have recently completed a graduate program, please consider submitting your new work or work in progress.
Specific tracks/strands will focus on the following themes, among others:
- The application of SOTL results in the classroom
- Unique SOTL research designs and approaches
- SOTL work from new scholars beginning their careers in the academy
- Works in progress from graduate students collaborating with faculty
- Creative approaches to mentoring graduate students in SOTL
- Models of supporting SOTL across departments, campuses, and disciplines
- Use of technology in SOTL
Session Formats
| • | Panel Discussion |
75 minute presentation by a panel of 3-5 colleagues on a topic of general interest |
| • | Workshop |
60 minute interactive presentation |
| • | Individual Paper |
20 minute presentations that will be grouped with other presenters for discussion |
| • | Round Table |
30 minute, informal, small group discussions. Ideal forum for presenting works in progress |
Click here to submit your proposal
If you have questions regarding a proposal, please contact the conference directors:
| Sarah Ginsberg |  |
| Jeff Bernstein | |