2020 SoTL Conference

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning ConferenceImage: SoTL logo

Date: December 3 & 4, 2020
Time: 9:00am - 1:30pm daily
Location: Online

 

Join us for The 5th Annual UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Conference, hosted by the Center for Educational Effectiveness. This conference is dedicated to celebrating and sharing the work of UC Davis’ growing community of scholarly educators. Together we will share research, ideas, practices and resources for evidence-supported teaching innovation at our university. This year's conference will feature research talks and posters, resource room sessions, panels, and keynote presentation. The themes for this year's conference include: Student Engagement, Equity and Inclusion, Assessment/Alternative Assessment, Flexibility and Innovation, and What We’re Learning from Remote Instruction. We look forward to seeing you there! 

View the conference agenda here.

2020 Keynote:

Bryan Dewsbury, University of Rhode Island

"The Social Context of the Education Experience"

 

BImage: Bryan Dewsburyryan Dewsbury is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Rhode Island. He is the Principal Investigator of the Science Education And Society (SEAS) research program where as a team they blend research on the social context of teaching and learning, faculty development of inclusive practices and programming in the cultivation of equity in education. He is also a Fellow with the John N. Gardner Institute where he assists institutions of higher education cultivate best practices in inclusive education. He was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. He immigrated in 1999 and attended Morehouse College for his Bachelors of Science in Biology after which he attended Florida International University for a Masters and PhD also in Biology. From there he transitioned to URI where his research focuses on inclusion and equity. Among his many publications is his 2019 piece “Deep Teaching in the STEM classroom” (CSSE) that recentralizes dialogue as the basis for good teaching. He has conducted faculty development and given plenary addresses on this topic to over 50 institutions of higher education, corporations and K12 institutions across North America.

This conference is for you:

  • If you use a research mindset to assess and inform your teaching practices.
  • If you’ve collected data to help you learn about our students and better support their success.
  • If you innovate in the classroom and use evidence to understand the outcome.
  • If you’d like to discuss scholarly teaching ideas with other interested educators.
  • If you’d like to learn more about teaching research at UC Davis.

2020 SoTL Conference Faculty Committee:

Korana Burke, Mathematics | Victoria Cross, Psychology | Marc Facciotti, Biomedical Engineering | Heather Jane Hether, Communication | Michele Igo, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | Joel Ledford, Plant Sciences | Steven Luck, Psychology | Cara Sandholt, School of Nursing | Janine Wilson (Co-Chair), Economics

For more information, please contact us at SoTLevents@ucdavis.edu.