Development Opportunities

The SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Sponsored by: Georgia Southern University
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - Friday, March 11, 2011
Registration Deadline: March 2, 2011
Location: Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

The Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) will host the 4th annual The SoTL Commons conference on the campus of Georgia Southern University. The conference brings together people engaging in SoTL and anyone wanting to improve student learning outcomes in higher education today. The conference epitomizes that college teaching is intellectual work that is enhanced both by disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship on teaching the disciplines (SoTL). The SoTL Commons Conference is a catalyst for learning, conversations and collaborations about SoTL as a key, evidence-based way to improve student learning.

Keynote and Featured Speakers:
The keynote speakers will be Jennifer Meta Robinson (Indiana University), Bill Cerbin (University of Wisconsin - La Crosse) and Richard Gale (Mount Royal University).

A SoTL companion to The SoTL Commons Conference is the open access, peer-reviewed eJournal, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, published by the CET at Georgia Southern University.

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Call for Proposals

The professional quality and applicability of the concurrent sessions and posters is central to the SoTL Commons Conference. All presenters are encouraged and expected to prepare sessions or posters according to the highest professional standards for an international, academic conference audience. Thus, the submission and review process is designed to accept only those proposals which are original SoTL research, or are about important aspects of SoTL, and that will be presented in innovative, engaging, effective ways.

All proposals must be submitted online using the form found on the website linked below. Please read session, proposal, and submission information carefully in order to avoid delays and to give proposals the best opportunity for acceptance. All proposals will go through a blind, peer-review process by the SoTL Commons Review Board consisting of faculty knowledgeable about the scholarship of teaching and learning who are located at various colleges and universities around the world. Proposals that simply discuss a teaching idea or practice without research and evidence to document the results are not appropriate for this conference.

Submission Deadline Sunday, October 31, 2010

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