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Inaugural SoTL Writing Institute (Summer 2025)

In this extended SoTL Writing Institute, participants will undertake drafting their first SoTL manuscript in a faculty cohort co-lead by CITL SoTL and writing experts. Spanning the entire summer, we will work both synchronously and asynchronously to examine SoTL as a genre, writing for interdisciplinary audiences, and publishing avenues for SoTL. (With the exception of the first and last meeting, all synchronous meetings will be held via Zoom.) Participants should enter the institute with a clear project or topic to write about and can expect to end the summer with an article-length draft manuscript ready to submit for publication.

Apply by April 18, 2025 to Participate

Funded SoTL Research

Each semester, the SoTL program within the CITL provides funding to IUB faculty to engage in SoTL research. Below are descriptions of the most recently funded projects. The PDFs are available upon request. If you are interested in applying for funding for your SoTL project, visit our SoTL grants page.

Improving Teaching Through Enhanced Analysis of Teaching Evaluations. Richard A. Hullinger, John Kruschke, and Ben Motz (Psychological and Brain Sciences).

Arts-Based Approaches for Enhancing Critical Thinking and Conflict Transformation Skills Among Undergraduate Students. Marjorie Manifold and Mousumi De (Art Education, Curriculum, and Instruction).

Evaluation of Practices for Teaching Assistants in Active Learning Classrooms.Tessa Bent (Speech and Hearing Sciences), Julie Knapp (School of Public Health), and Jill Robinson (Chemistry).

Reimagining Opera for Kids: Developing a Pedagogy of Performing Arts Community Engagement. Kimberly Carballo, Kevin Murphy, and Martha Eason (Jacobs School of Music).

Efficacy of Online Learning Modules in a Large Undergraduate Anatomy Class. Polly Husmann (Medical Sciences).

An Ongoing Study Determining the Best Support Programming for Students in Need, Part II: Solving the Finite Mathematics Quandary. Andrew Koke, Kristyn Sylvia, Molly Burke, and Anthony Guest-Scott (Student Academic Center); Elizabeth Housworth (Mathematics) and Leslie Robinson (College of Arts and Sciences).

Mathematical Information Understanding via Open Educational Resources and Personalized Graphical Search. Xiaozhong Liu (Information and Library Science).

Immersive Mobile Technologies for Language Teaching and Learning. Olga Scrivner and Julie Madewell (Spanish and Portuguese Department); Nitocris Perez and Cameron Buckley (University Information Technology Services).

Exploring the Role of Language Aptitude and Motivation in Learning Chinese. Henghua Su, Yung-Yung Chang, and Lan Yu (East Asian Languages & Cultures).

How Can We More Effectively Encourage Faculty to Apply and Do SOTL?. Carol Hostetter (Social Work).

The Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Experience Offered by the PASS Student Led Team Learning Program: Biology and Beyond. Andrew Koke (Student Academic Center).

Analyzing the learning outcomes and teaching strategies of an arts-based general education curriculum on peace and conflict transformation through the arts. Marjorie Manifold and Mousumi De (Education – Curriculum & Instruction).

Service-Learning Attitudes and Project Engagement in a Larger Classroom Setting. Lauren Reiter (Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design).

Teaching as though Learning Matters: A Systematic Study of Graduate Student Reflections on Learning to Teach (and Teaching for Learning) in Higher Education. Jennifer Robinson (Anthropology), Valerie O’Loughlin (Medical Sciences).

The Role of Student Perception in Information Literacy Learning Outcomes in the Archives-centered Advanced Writing Course. Ranu Samantrai and Laura Clapper (English).

Augmented Reality Digital Technologies (ARDT) for Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Olga Scrivner and Julie Madewell (Spanish and Portuguese), Cameron Buckley (Fine Arts).

Student interaction with instructional activities: Comparing successful and unsuccessful students. Michael Stucker (Music – Recording Arts).

Tweets from Europe: Social Networking as Authentic Learning. Giovanni Zanovello and Katherine Altizer (Musicology).

A Literature Review and Preliminary Survey on Learner Outcomes in Language Courses Taught by Native and Non-Native Speakers. Ariann Stern-Gottschalk (Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures).

A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Pedagogy Courses’ Influence on Graduate Student Development as Teacher-Scholars. Valerie O’Loughlin (Medical Sciences), Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin (Applied Health Science), Jennifer Robinson (Anthropology).

Reimagining Opera for Kids: Developing a Pedagogy of Music Outreach. Kimberly Carballo (Jacobs School of Music).

For information from before these dates, please contact the SoTL Program.

SoTL Spotlight Videos

Are you interested in becoming involved in SoTL research, but don't know where to start? Are you curious how colleagues at IUB got involved? In the SoTL Spotlight Videos, faculty members share where they began early in their careers, where they are now in SoTL work, and how they went from point A to point B.

Featured SoTL Activity