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The Centers for Teaching & Technology will host the 8th annual "The SoTL Commons" conference in Savannah, Georgia. The conference brings together people engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and research that helps improve student learning outcomes in higher education. The conference epitomizes that college teaching is intellectual work that is enhanced both by disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship on teaching the disciplines (SoTL) that is enhanced by both disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The SoTL Commons Conference is a catalyst for learning, conversations and collaborations about SoTL as a key, evidence-based way to improve student learning.

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CTLS) will host the 6th annual "The SoTL Commons" conference in Savannah, Georgia. 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.

Join us at Loyola Marymount University for the 2013 International Institute for SoTL Scholars and Mentors (IISSAM) on Storytelling, which brings together new and seasoned SoTL scholars engaged in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).  

If you are a graduate student, instructor, or university staff member interested in SoTL research, this program is designed for you to: Evaluate SoTL research articles Complete a facilitated SoTL research project Engage in reflective practice Present research findings at a teaching and learning conference The program begins May 10, 2016 and includes in-class and online course delivery. All applications are due April 1, 2016. Apply today!

The inquire Certificate is a non-degree certificate program that has been developed for you to enhance your ability and competency in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). With attention to the authentic experience of conducting SoTL, the inquire Certificate is designed to be collaborative and inquiry based.  Upon successful completion of the program, you can expect to leave with the following: Non-degree program certificate in The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, offered by Open Learning and Educational Support (OpenEd) at the University of Guelph Named award in Enhancing Research Practice, accredited by the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) Peer-reviewed conference presentation

A unique one-year Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) accredited, non-degree certificate program, inquire is designed for graduate students and instructors looking to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). The inquire certificate includes face-to-face sessions and online course delivery, providing participants studying from a distance with the flexibility to conduct their own disciplinary studies while simultaneously enhancing their abilities in the scholarship of teaching and learning. A blended learning, inquiry-based program, the inquire certificate can be achieved by completing the following three successive courses: Foundations and Frameworks in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conducting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Communicating Findings in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program participants can expect to ethically and collaboratively identify, investigate, and answer a question related to teaching and learning. The inquire non-degree program certificate will use an inquiry-based learning approach to enable students to develop and apply pedagogical knowledge and skills by collaboratively researching a self-identified question related to teaching and learning. Two mandatory face-to-face sessions occur throughout the certificate. The first face-to-face session is a four-day Action Institute running at the beginning of the first course (May 5-8, 2015). The second face-to-face session occurs at the end of the certificate during the 2016 Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference at the University of Guelph. All other components of the certificate will be offered online.

Welcome to the 10th annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The conference will be in Raleigh, North Carolina, on October 2 - 5, 2013, hosted by Elon University's Center for Engaged Learning. In higher education around the world, inquiry into student learning is moving from isolated practice to systematic research, from peripheral projects to institutional integration, from the margins of disciplines and campuses toward a central position in the academy. This conference will focus on these and other transitions in scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

The Institute on Project-Based Learning is a 2.5 day intensive workshop where teams of five or more faculty and administrators from colleges and universities will gain knowledge about project-based learning and make tangible progress to integrate those concepts into their own curricula. The Institute is hosted and run by WPI in partnership with the Association of American Colleges & Universities, the leading national association focused on undergraduate liberal education.

Discover the many ways that technology in the classroom can breathe new life into your lessons when you register for the Teaching with Technology Conference from Magna Publications. Whether you teach online, face-to-face, or both, you'll obtain proven ways to enhance everyday teaching and learning as well as engage deeply with your students and elevate their academic achievement. Over the course of two-and-a-half days, you'll interact with faculty, instructional designers, faculty developers, and higher education professionals from around the globe who are committed to advancing pedagogical goals with the aid of technology.

The 2017 Teaching Professor Conference: Cutting-Edge Learning for Exceptional Educators

This International Summer Institute is one of the first to be held on the topic of 'students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education'. It has several key features which make it distinctive: Key features The overall aim of the International Summer Institute is to build the capacity and understanding of faculty, staff and students to develop, design and implement initiatives to promote the practice of students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education. Faculty, staff and students in higher education are invited to come to McMaster University, about 45 minutes south of Toronto International Airport, for two, three or four days from 2-5 May 2016. Faculty and staff are encouraged where possible to bring a student with them, or students should bring a member of faculty/staff with them, to participate in either one or two consecutive two day highly interactive workshops. Alternatively teams of 4-6 faculty/staff and students (at least two of each) from an institution may apply to join a three day 'Change Institute' where they will be supported to plan the implementation of a Students as Partners initiative. Inter-institutional teams are also welcome. The Summer Institute will be facilitated by highly experienced faculty, staff and students including Peter Felten (Elon, US), Mick Healey (Healey HE Consultants, UK), Beth Marquis (McMaster, Canada) and Kelly Matthews (Queensland, Australia) The McMaster International Summer Institute has students threaded throughout every aspect of the work - from the planning to the facilitating to the participating teams.

The 13th annual learning conference explores how we can design, assess, and facilitate learning that engages every learner, allowing each student to build their own knowledge and contribute their own strengths to their learning and the learning of their classmates and instructors. Together, we'll explore questions that reach through and beyond content and pedagogical content knowledge, like How can one instructor engage every student in a large class? How do instructors recognize and celebrate their students' diversity without risking microaggressions? What can instructors do before, during, and after class, face-to-face and online, to support each student? How does an instructor create and maintain an environment where every student feels welcome to contribute? What critical pedagogies empower each student's unique voice? What technologies enhance a student's ability to engage and contribute? What are the promising practices in your discipline? Can they be adapted to other disciplines? Keynote address by Dr.Sarah L.Eddy, "End of Lecture?  Active learning increases student achievement".

This year's theme reflects Calgary's high elevation of 1,049 meters and the nearby Canadian Rocky Mountains peaking at 3,747 meters, dramatically shaping the city's western skyline. This theme will inspire new ideas, hope, and future-oriented thinking in the scholarship of teaching and learning.  The conference will take place from October 11 through 14, 2017.  For information about hotels, the airport, and the conference venue, click "Logistics" above.

The International Lilly Conference on College Teaching is one of the nation's most renowned conferences presenting the scholarship of teaching and learning. For over thirty years, teacher-scholars from across the U.S. and internationally have gathered annually the weekend before Thanksgiving to share innovative pedagogies and discuss questions, challenges, and insights about teaching and learning.

ICERI2014, the 7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, will be held in Seville (Spain), on the 17th, 18th and 19th of November, 2014. ICERI2014 provides the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences. It is the perfect platform to discuss the latest developments in the field of Teaching and learning methodologies, educational projects and innovations and new technologies applied to Education and Research.

The 2015 National Forum on Active Learning Classrooms (NF-ALC) at the University of Minnesota focuses on advancing practice and research on active learning classroom spaces. The NF-ALC will feature new session formats (see the Submission Guidelines) designed to provide opportunities for participants to demonstrate innovative practices and research that leverage the advantages of technology-enhanced learning spaces and active learning pedagogies. Our expectation is that participants from a wide variety of institutions will attend the NF-ALC to a) examine common issues affecting the effective use of these spaces and chart a path for their resolution; b) share successful practices that have enriched the student and faculty experience in active learning classrooms; and c) build and deepen networks with colleagues in order to advance their campus efforts. The forum is framed by the alignment between the use of new learning spaces and achieving the academic priorities of many universities and colleges, such as increased retention, improved graduation rates, student engagement, emerging technologies, and global learning. Since these priorities are of broad interest to all working in higher education, international participation is most welcome.

The three-day conference is packed with learning opportunities designed to enrich your teaching practice. There are preconference workshops that provide hands-on learning, plenary sessions keynoted by nationally-recognized experts, carefully selected concurrent sessions on a range of relevant topics, poster presentations highlighting the latest research, and all sorts of occasions for informal interaction.

In 2015, join us in Vancouver, BC, as Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia host the 35th Annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) 2015 Conference on June 16 - 19, 2015 at the Westin Bayshore hotel. The conference will encourage and facilitate the improvement of teaching and learning in post-secondary education in Canada. We invite our colleagues to Canada's West Coast to dialogue about their experiences and engage in scholarly inquiry into student learning to enable us to "fine-tune" our practice as educators and educational leaders. Tune in to the beauty, enjoyment and activities Vancouver has to offer. Join us in "Achieving Harmony: Tuning into Practice".

This year's conference theme is Leverage. This theme invites us to explore the various roles that we play as faculty developers, administrators, teachers, and students, and the ways in which we capitalize on the assets around us to meet the many needs of the higher education community, ideally doing more and better work with less effort. We hope this theme and conference will build on Kathryn Plank's 2013 Presidential Address, during which we all contemplated who we are and our relationship to the meaningful work that we do. In that spirit, how do we leverage who we are to better accomplish all that we are asked to do, and why do we persevere?