RESOURCE HUB
The Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning develops resources in collaboration with various units across the university to meet the various teaching and learning needs of the UBC community.
Please ensure citations are included when you use these resources in your own presentation and publications.
Getting Started
- Common issues when starting with SoTL (ISoTL, 2020)
- Student Participation in Teaching and Learning Inquiry Projects at UBC (ISoTL, 2020)
- UBC BREB application guide (ISoTL, 2021)
- SoTL Projects: Do you need ethics approval? (10 minute video)
Common Methods in SoTL
- Surveys and questionnaires (UBC Flexible Learning, 2017)
- Focus groups and interviews (ISoTL, 2020)
- An Introduction to Thematic Analyses (ISoTL and Skylight, 2023)
Inclusive Data Collection Tool Design
- General guidelines on asking for demographic information (UBC Equity & Inclusion Office, 2020)
- Asking about gender (UBC Equity & Inclusion Office, 2020)
- Sexual orientation guidelines (UBC Equity & Inclusion Office, 2020)
- Survey design considerations (ISoTL, 2022)
- Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews (Eastern Illinois University, 2002)
- Data Feminism
Recruiting Participants
- Sample Focus Group/Interview Consent Form – BREB approved projects
- Sample Focus Group/Interview Consent Form – Projects not requiring BREB approval (QA/QI)
- Sample survey consent – BREB approved projects
- Sample survey consent – Projects not requiring BREB approval (QA/QI)
Dissemination of Scholarly Outputs
- Academic Excellence Fund
- Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL)
- Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL)
- Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication
- Certificate Program in Advanced Teaching and Learning (CATL)
- Equity and Inclusion Office
- Indigenous Initiatives
- Learning Analytics
- Peer Review of Teaching
- Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL)
- Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)
- Wellness Centre
- UBC Student Voice Survey (PDF): Results from a March, 2020 survey on the UBC student experience with emergency remote learning
- Hybrid teaching and learning pilot evaluation report (PDF): Results from evaluation of a UBC initiative on hybrid classrooms
- “SoTL Guide” by the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
- “What is SoTL” by Kathleen McKinney
- Researching Teaching and Student Outcomes in Postsecondary Education: A Guide by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
- Annotated SoTL Bibliography curated by Dr. Nicola Simmons, Faculty of Education, Brock University
- A Guide to SoTL from the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning (University of Calgary)
- Ethics in SoTL guide from the University of Calgary (note: some institutional differences may exist)
- Roadmap for SoTL (Utrecht University , 2021)
- The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL)
- Teaching and Learning Inquiry (TLI)
- International Journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IJ-SoTL)
- Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education (JETHE)
- New Directions for Teaching and Learning
- Discipline-specific SoTL journals: via Kennesaw State University and the University of North Carolina