{"id":208,"date":"2012-02-17T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T00:18:16","slug":"sotl-and-engineering-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/sotl-and-engineering-education\/","title":{"rendered":"SoTL and Engineering Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ir.lib.uwo.ca\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&amp;context=cjsotl_rcacea\">The scholarship of teaching and learning<\/a>\u00a0(SoTL) can be defined as the study and dissemination of evidence-based teaching and learning within, and across, disciplines. \u00a0 SoTL includes four key activities<strong>*<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>observing teaching and student learning before, during and after teaching;<\/li>\n<li>interpreting findings in the light of relevant pedagogical research literature and the documented wisdom of practice;<\/li>\n<li>using the resulting insights to improve teaching and learning;<\/li>\n<li>documenting the above activities for future use and for others to read and comment upon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Those who are interested in SoTL respecting engineering education will find the following journals of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandf.co.uk\/journals\/titles\/03043797.asp\">European Journal of Engineering Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijee.ie\/\">International Journal of Engineering Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asee.org\/papers-and-publications\/publications\/jee\">Journal of<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asee.org\/papers-and-publications\/publications\/jee\">\u00a0Engineering Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.uri.edu\/ojgee\/\">On-line Journal for Global Engineering Education<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those interested in service learning in engineering education may fine the following links helpful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityservicelearning.ca\/en\/\">Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.queensu.ca\/ojs\/index.php\/ijsle\/index\">International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering: \u00a0Humanitarian and Social Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ginsberg.umich.edu\/mjcsl\/\">Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The learning-theory and learning-science literatures can inform engineering education. \u00a0The following books are of interest:<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose, S., Bridges, M., DePietro, M., Lovett, M., Norman, M. \u00a0<em>How Learning Works: \u00a07 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching<\/em>. \u00a0Jossey-Bass, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., Cocking, R.R.(eds.)\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/openbook.php?isbn=0309070368\">How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School<\/a><\/em>, National Research Council, 1999<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe, P.,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.questia.com\/read\/111490278?title=Brain%20Matters%3a%20Translating%20Research%20into%20Classroom%20Practice\">Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice<\/a><\/em>, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2001<\/p>\n<p>The American Society of Civil Engineers&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asce.org\/civil_engineering_body_of_knowledge\/\">Body of Knowledge<\/a>\u00a0is also useful.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Roxa, T. and Martensson, K. (2008). Teaching and Learning Regimes from Within: \u00a0Significant Networks as a Locus for the Social Construction of Teaching and Learning. Chpt. 17, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=vA8oCif1BmsC&amp;dq=The+University+and+its+Disciplines:++Teaching+and+Learning+Within+and+Beyond+the+Disciplinary+Boundaries.+C.+Kreber\">The University and its Disciplines: \u00a0Teaching and Learning Within and Beyond the Disciplinary Boundaries. ed. C. Kreber<\/a>, Taylor and Francis, New York, pp 209-218<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scholarship of teaching and learning\u00a0(SoTL) can be defined as the study and dissemination of evidence-based teaching and learning within, and across, disciplines. \u00a0 SoTL includes four key activities*: observing teaching and student learning before, during and after teaching; interpreting findings in the light of relevant pedagogical research literature and the documented wisdom of practice; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1291,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nesbit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}