February 24th SoTL Journal Club

The CTSI-SoTL team is excited to offer a noon-hour SoTL Journal Club Series with monthly events throughout Fall-Winter 2021-22. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for our community to explore the SoTL literature in a synchronous group setting, both to find practical applications to implement in our teaching, and to inform our own SoTL projects.

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

Facilitator: Dr. Gözde Mercan, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, FAS

Article:
Henrie, C. R., Bodily, R., Larsen, R., & Graham, C. R. (2018). Exploring the potential of LMS log data as a proxy measure of student engagement. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 30(2), 344-362. [Library Permalink]

Discussion prompts:

1. What do you think about the use of LMS data to measure student engagement? Do you ever use LMS data or other measures of student engagement in your teaching?
   
2. What do you think of the methodological choices of the authors? Is there anything you would have done differently?
   
3. The article discusses two possible sources for the lack of significant correlations: methodological and conceptual reasons. What do you think would best explain this non-significance?
   
4. How do you evaluate the potential of learning analytics for SoTL considering the rise of online teaching and learning due to the pandemic?
   
   

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

Please email cora.mccloy@utoronto.ca with any questions about this event.