SoTL Tips

The other quick learning guides I have been working with are SoTL Tips and Debunking SoTL Myths. I am going to share more of these on Instagram.

1. The first SoTL Tip Tiles
2. Text from image above: SoTL Tip 01
3. Text from the Image Tiles above: SoTL Tip 02
4. The First SoTL Myth Tiles

The first SoTL Tip Tiles

Text from image above: SoTL Tip 01

Always search for critique about educational models!

Have you fallen for VARK (learning styles), or you really liked the shiny numbers in the Learning Cone or Learning

Pyramide? Because these are nice and clear, and feel right, and people using them do so with unfaltering conviction?

These and many more educational myths have been debunked or at least highly criticised.

Educational Models are not undisputed truths. They are fluid, renegotiated, extended, newly interpreted or debunked.

Chances are if you are using a model that is >10 years (or actually any model) there will be critique on it. Because not a single model is able to capture the complex business that is learning and teaching comprehensively.

Tip: here is what I do still after >20 years in education. When I want to use a model or I think it sounds interesting. I search the model, and then I search critique of the model.

Now the model might still be useful for me to use, but I want to be aware of its strength and weaknesses, and know if there are other ways of thinking about a topics out there.

Text from the Image Tiles above: SoTL Tip 02

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, as form of practitioner inquiry, explores anything impacting learning and teaching in higher education, such as:

• Evaluating a teaching method, a course, programme or an intervention
• Explore educator experience
• Analyse policy impact on learning experience, assessment, learning outcomes, progression

Before you begin your inquiry focus on answering these questions.

• What is the purpose?
• How does it improve teaching practice?
• How does it further student learning experience?

The First SoTL Myth Tiles