UC Davis SoTL Forum
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 | Noon – 1:30 p.m. | Zoom
Join us for the inaugural UC Davis SoTL Forum, a focused virtual event designed to bring together UC Davis educators to connect, learn, and explore the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Designed to create connections across disciplines and stages of SoTL practice, the Forum offers an opportunity to learn from colleagues, exchange ideas, and explore the campus support and pathways available for advancing SoTL work.
Featured Speaker:
Marc Facciotti, Biomedical Engineering
Leveraging SoTL to Impact Student Success
Drawing on his experience with SoTL, Marc will share how an iterative process of inquiry, reflection, and improvement has influenced his teaching practice. Explore how incorporating SoTL into a continuous improvement cycle can help refine teaching approaches and create meaningful impacts on student learning and success.
Concurrent Breakout Sessions:
Starting Your SoTL Journey
Explore resources, guidance, and support available to help move from an initial question or idea toward a SoTL project.
Panelists:
- Stephen Falwell, Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Matt Steinwachs, Center for Educational Effectiveness
- Melinda Livas, UC Davis Library
- William Rayo, Psychology
Moderator: Julia Chamberlain, Chemistry
Growing Your SoTL Practice
Hear perspectives and practical insights for building on your SoTL experience, sharing your work, developing collaborations, and exploring where your scholarship might go next.
Panelists:
- Cara Sandholdt, School of Nursing
- Mona Monfared, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Victoria Cross, Psychology
Moderator: Whitney Duim, Chemistry
UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) community brings together educators who are interested in using evidence, inquiry, and reflection to better understand and improve teaching and student learning.
Through the UC Davis SoTL Forum and annual SoTL Conference, faculty and educators have opportunities to connect with colleagues, explore approaches to scholarly teaching, share their work, and learn from teaching and learning research across disciplines.
Conference Planning Committee
- Beth Broome, Center for Educational Effectiveness
- Korana Burke, Mathematics
- Julia Chamberlain, Chemistry
- Victoria Cross, Psychology
- Whitney Duim, Chemistry
- Debbie Fetter, Nutrition
- Kim Heintz, Center for Educational Effectiveness
- Heather Jane Hether, Communication
- Miriam Markum, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Cara Sandholdt, School of Nursing
- Matthew Steinwachs, Center for Educational Effectiveness
Contact
For more information about the UC Davis SoTL Forum or Conference, please email [email protected].