Carol Hostetter, PhDE.C. Moore SymposiumMarch 4, 2010

Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

I. The foundations of SOTLor – 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!

Aristotle’s conundrum

"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 SOTLor – on the inside nowMirrorsLensesWindowsTransmitters

Thanks to Whitney Schlegel, ISSOTL 2005

Mirrors

Lenses

Windows

Transmitters

I’m teaching my dog towhistle.

I don’t hear anything.

I said I was teaching him, I didn’t say he

was learning!

SOTL’s emphasis on 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?”

KandinskyThe beauty and the power of the circle

The balance of opposing forces

Live life spherically

Carol Hostetter, PhDE.C. Moore SymposiumMarch 4, 2010With thanks to Valerie Decker for visual aids

Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Our Journey in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning