The fifth annual Celebrate SoTL Day hosted by ISoTL took place on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21, 2022. This mostly in-person event provided an opportunity for over 60 SoTL practitioners across UBCV to reconnect, share and learn from each other. It offered a forum to celebrate and reflect on the copious and relevant SoTL happening at our institution, the need to make it visible and accessible, and ethical considerations that inherently are at play when researching learning and teaching. If you were unable to attend the sessions, or just wish to revisit the content, slides are available below.
Keynote (Thursday, October 20, 2022) – Leveraging UBC’s Strength in SoTL
This keynote, provided by ISoTL Director Elisa Baniassad, explored the exciting possibilities UBC can leverage, as the university continues to distill findings on teaching and learning that strengthens pedagogical practices. The slide deck can be downloaded (PDF).
Panel Discussion (Thursday, October 20, 2022) – Perspectives on Student Demographics Data and SoTL
This panel hosted five SoTL experts who shared their insights on the use of disaggregated student demographic data in SoTL at UBC. Download the slides provided by Karen Smith, Matt Coles, and Elsie Achugbue/Stephanie McKeown (joint talk).
Lightning talks (Friday, October 21, 2022) – Showcase your SoTL Work
This lightning talk session featured SoTL activity across UBC and provided an opportunity to learn about SoTL projects and experiences, solicit feedback, disseminate results, and invite collaboration. Posters may be viewed as a PDF deck. Individual presenters are listed below:
| Presenter | e-Poster Title | |
| 1 | Judy Chan (Brandon Oh, Xinke Wan) | Fostering Learning Community: how may a collaborative learning environment lead to meaningful exploration in an online, synchronous introductory food science course? |
| 2 | Romina Sardari (Simon Albon) | Creating An Ethics Screening Tool For SoTL Work at UBC and QA/QI For Broader Use |
| 3 | Christine D’Onofrio (PJ Rayner; Scott Robertson) | Disciplinary coherences: Building dialectics through paired interview methods |
| 4 | Ingrid Price (Scott Robertson) | Is there a recipe for success? Exploring what makes for a positive student experience within a faculty-student group mentoring program in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| 5 | Silvia Bartolic | Student Input in Developing an Undergraduate OER Textbook |
| 6 | Bruce Moghtader | Social Impact Lab Toolkit |
| 7 | Xiaowen Xu (Bosung Kim; Trish Varao-Sousa) | Instructor’s self-reflection in students’ group writing project |
| 8 | Moberley Luger (Craig Stensrud) | Speaking in the Disciplines: A new tool for an equitable speaking pedagogy |
| 9 | Pheroze Unwalla | The Impacts of Emotion(ality) and Emotive Writing: A SOTL Project in a Middle East Studies (MES) Classroom |
Workshop (Friday, October 21, 2022) – Creating a SoTL Project
This interactive session guided participants through the steps of creating a SoTL project from an existing teaching practice or research question. Session slides can be downloaded (PDF).
We hope to see you again next year!