Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated unprecedented changes to teaching and learning in higher education. SoTL-active faculty were uniquely positioned to leverage their knowledge and expertise to improve teaching and learning during the pandemic not only in their own courses, but through a knowledge mo...
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Georgia Southern University
2022-01-01
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated unprecedented changes to teaching and learning in higher education. SoTL-active faculty were uniquely positioned to leverage their knowledge and expertise to improve teaching and learning during the pandemic not only in their own courses, but through a knowledge mobilization approach also in broader contexts (e.g., departmental colleagues, extradepartmental colleagues, etc.). In this piece, I reflect on how I leveraged my SoTL expertise, in conjunction with my disciplinary expertise, to improve teaching and learning in my courses and those of my colleagues, demonstrating the value of SoTL-active faculty as cosmopolitan assets to their institutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a4b15ecee90241b7980893c6df728b8d2022-12-21T20:21:51ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1931-47442022-01-0116110.20429/ijsotl.2022.160103Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 PandemicTrent MaurerThe COVID-19 pandemic necessitated unprecedented changes to teaching and learning in higher education. SoTL-active faculty were uniquely positioned to leverage their knowledge and expertise to improve teaching and learning during the pandemic not only in their own courses, but through a knowledge mobilization approach also in broader contexts (e.g., departmental colleagues, extradepartmental colleagues, etc.). In this piece, I reflect on how I leveraged my SoTL expertise, in conjunction with my disciplinary expertise, to improve teaching and learning in my courses and those of my colleagues, demonstrating the value of SoTL-active faculty as cosmopolitan assets to their institutions.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol16/iss1/3covid-19 pandemicsotlknowledge mobilizationcosmopolitan assets |
| spellingShingle | Trent Maurer Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning covid-19 pandemic sotl knowledge mobilization cosmopolitan assets |
| title | Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_short | Leveraging SoTL to Improve Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | leveraging sotl to improve teaching and learning during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | covid-19 pandemic sotl knowledge mobilization cosmopolitan assets |
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