Showcasing U of T SoTL Research (Part II)

Facilitators: Cora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL 

Faculty Presenters:  
Aarthi Ashok, Professor, Teaching Stream, Biological Sciences, UTSC 
Title: Investigating classroom climate, inclusion, and students’ sense of belonging in STEM courses 

Certina Ho, Assistant Professor, Director, Educational Program Evaluation and Scholarship, Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine; Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Title: Safety Games: Gamification in Pharmacy Education 

Nazanin Khazra, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Economics, FAS 
Title: Emergence of Tech-Econ; Teaching Machine Learning and Big-Data Skills to Economics Students 

Katherine Patton, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Anthropology, FAS 
Title: Assessing the value of field trips in undergraduate education 

This event is Part II of the CTSI SoTL Summer Series that showcases our U of T instructors’ participation in SoTL conferences, the 2023-24 CTSI SoTL Writing Cohort, in SoTL and Learning Analytics initiatives and in some cases recent publications flowing from these activities. The presentation topics are diverse and fall within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Discipline-Based Educational Research (DBER) in higher education. All presentations address presenters’ efforts to understand ways to enhance student learning and employ theoretical frameworks and systemic inquiry to meet these goals. Presenters will share their research goals/questions, research design, methods and core findings. There will be time set aside for a Q&A. Participants are welcome from all SoTL experience levels.