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Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our
Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning
Carol Hostetter, PhD
E.C. Moore Symposium
March 4, 2010
I. The foundations of SOTL
or – on the outside, looking in
Uri Treisman’s problem with calculus at Stanford
and thanks to Craig Nelson for bringing this to our attention!
Craig Nelson – http://maypage.iu.edu/~nelson1
What do we know about ways to
change teaching to produce large
increases in achievement and
retention?
How I feel sometimes!
"For the things we have to
learn before we can do
them, we learn by doing
them."
Or, as Keith Trigwell quoted at
ISSOTL 2005
Yogi Berra:
“In theory, there is no
difference between theory
and practice. In practice,
there is.”
Application!
Importance of reflection
What SOTL gives us – avoid
reinventing the square wheel
About SOTL
“Without data, I am just a person with an opinion”
SOTL at IU:
From Two Box Lunches to a Buffet (Thompson)
II. The current status of SOTL
or – on the inside now
Mirrors
Lenses
Windows
Transmitters
Thanks to Whitney Schlegel, ISSOTL 2005
SOTL’s emphasis on learning
I’m teaching
my dog to
whistle.
I don’t hear
anything.
I said I was teaching
him, I didn’t say he
was learning!
III. Emerging trends of SOTL
What are the new ideas, controversies,
and directions you have heard about?
Open access
CreativeCommons.org
Richard Barniak’s Connexions: Cnx.org
Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at
the University of British Columbia
www.cwsci.ubc.ca/
Enhanced learning through
technology
Valuing diversity
Institutional changes
“If we knew
what we were
doing, it
wouldn’t be
called
research,
would it?”
Kandinsky
The beauty and
the power of the
circle
The balance of
opposing forces
Live life
spherically
Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our
Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning
Carol Hostetter, PhD
E.C. Moore Symposium
March 4, 2010
With thanks to Valerie Decker for visual aids