February 3rd SoTL Journal Club

The CTSI-SoTL team is excited to continue the monthly Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Journal Club Series through Fall-Winter 2022-23. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for our community to explore the SoTL literature in a group setting, both to find practical applications to implement in the classroom and to inform our own SoTL projects.

Articles in this series are selected by instructors within our SoTL community, and these papers are a starting point to explore and examine one research study. Facilitators provide discussion prompts to guide and engage us in conversations that will resonate across all disciplines and SoTL experience levels.

Facilitators:
Katherine Patton, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Science
Shelby Riskin, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts & Science

Article:
Otter, R. R., Seipel, S., Graeff, T., Alexander, B., Boraiko, C., Gray, J., Petersen, K., & Sadler, K. (2013). Comparing student and faculty perceptions of online and traditional courses. The Internet and Higher Education, 19, 27-35. [Permalink]

Discussion Prompts:

1. What argument are the authors making in this paper about online vs traditional teaching? Do you find their results and interpretations persuasive? Is there anything in this article that might prompt you to change the way you teach online or in person? Why or why not?
2. Does the article prompt any questions that you have regarding online vs traditional teaching? If so what are they?
   
3. Did they miss anything in their survey questions that you wanted to know or would have asked?
4. Did the results surprise you? Do the results line up with what your own experiences with online teaching suggest?

CTSI Staff:
Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL
Kyle Turner, MSc, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning

Please email kyle.turner@utoronto.ca with any questions about this event.

We invite you to enroll in the SoTL Hub on Quercus to access materials from this and other series.