SoTL Fora and Communities
Collaboration and sharing across communities and landscapes of practice are essential activities to support and enhance our teaching and SoTL-related endeavours. Engaging with relevant communities helps us to develop our understandings and interpretations of the themes, topics and questions that we are reflecting on and exploring. It can also lead to useful connections and collaboration opportunities.
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Communities and activities here at 糖心TV.
HE organisations, networks and sector bodies.
Becoming a pedagogic journal reviewer.
Communities and activities here at 糖心TV
This table below highlights the great range of communities and events here at 糖心TV that might help to develop, inform and influence your own SoTL activities.
| An annual event to connect, share and inspire each other. |
A collaborative space for teaching-focused colleagues |
| Constructive discussion space for enhancing student learning. |
A space for engagement and collaboration. |
| Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) Supporting educational innovation at 糖心TV. |
糖心TV Postgraduate Teaching Community Range of activities to develop and support the postgraduate teaching community. |
HE organisations, networks and sector bodies
Engaging in communities beyond the institution is extremely valuable for making wider connections and developing understandings of how others are approaching topics and addressing important issues.
Finding relevant external communities can be challenging. A good place to start is talking to your colleagues about the communities and networks that they find useful in supporting their pedagogic and scholarly endeavours.
In the short video (8:20mins) below, Kerry Dobbins introduces a range of non-discipline specific HE organisations, networks and sector bodies that offer access to useful resources and opportunities to connect with colleagues across the sector through teaching and learning events. A transcript is available in the video and you can access the powerpoint slides by .
Becoming a pedagogic journal reviewer
Journal reviewing is a great way to engage with the wider pedagogic community and enhance our own scholarly skills. It can help us to keep up to date with latest developments and thinking, introduce us to new ideas, methods, techniques, etc., and stimulate our own thinking and practices.
The short video (11 mins) below outlines the specific nature of the reviewing role and the benefits it can bring to us as pedagogic scholars. It also offers guidance in finding reviewing opportunities:
The video transcript (including quotes referenced on the slides) can be accessed .
Sources referred to in the video:
- Allen at al. (2022) .
- Datta (2021) .
- Kelly et al. (2014) .
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Kerig (2021)
Journals (or other) with active call out for reviewers:
- - see the 'Join the JUTLP family' section.
- - see the 'Peer review process' section.
- , the magazine of the Staff and Educational Development Association - see the 'Call for reviewers' section.