SoTL – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Published! Glessmer et al. (2025) on “How to SoTL”

mglessmer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:36:27 +0000

Ok, “How to SoTL” is only the working title of the paper and the name of the Teams group in which we all collaborated, the actual title ended up being “Developing a scholarly approach and contributing to conversations about teaching and learning“. But: that paper was just published last night in Oceanography! I wrote it […]

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Currently reading Chick, Felten, Mårtensson (2025) “The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning”

mglessmer — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:48:43 +0000

A while back in Bergen, I had a writing session with three of my favourite colleagues, on a project which we have nicknamed “how to SoTL” — writing a low-threshold introduction to SoTL for busy teachers, with the idea that people who might be interested in publishing in TOS Oceanography or the Nordic Journal of […]

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Finally reading THE SoTL book

mglessmer — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:42:28 +0000

I have been planning to read “SoTL in action: Illuminating critical moments of practice” edited by Chick (2023) for literally weeks, and then when I finally managed to put my hands on it in one of the university libraries (summer opening hours here are a joke!) I had already invested so much energy into this […]

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Reading about going public with SoTL

mglessmer — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:13:51 +0000

I am still trying to read up on SoTL for a project I am working on, but keep getting side-tracked (but at least this time it is by a SoTL book. After a super quick detour from the book to an article it cites, on my favourite topic still, social media, that is…. :-D). So […]

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Currently reading Mårtensson et al. (2011) on “Developing a quality culture through the scholarship of teaching and learning”

mglessmer — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:35:27 +0000

Hard to believe I never summarized this paper by my own colleagues, on SoTL, in our own context at Lund University before, but here we go! They describe the strategy to use SoTL as an instrument to change individual and collective teaching quality, which they implement at LU, and where the goals are “to support […]

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Reading up on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

mglessmer — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:32:21 +0000

In anticipation of a big thunderstorm this afternoon I started the day with a long morning dip, postponed a meeting so I don’t have to be on public transport if the thunderstorm is as bad as predicted, and now decided to read a whole folder of articles about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) […]

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Published! “Superficially plausible outputs from a Black Box: problematising GenAI tools for analysing qualitative SoTL data” Glessmer & Forsyth (2025)

mglessmer — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:29:18 +0000

We had spent the last month reading, coding, discussing, re-coding, discussing some more, re-coding, discussing even more, and then consensus coding free-text answers of 449 students, and submitted the manuscript. “Just for fun, let’s plug it all into ChatGPT!” Rachel said. And so we did. And after 4 seconds, out came an analysis that looked […]

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Doing things together instead of alone: structures for Collective SoTL — a guest post by Kirsty Dunnett

mglessmer — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:37:04 +0000

Kirsty sent me this super interesting text with a vision of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) being a collective enterprise, rather than a mostly individual one. I love the vision and am excited to repost below! One of the underlying ideas in which we frame our discussions of departmental teaching culture in iEarth is that […]

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