Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Georgia SoTL Research Consortium Rapid Transition to Remote Teaching Study

Led by Mike Metzler, Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Online Education, the Georgia SoTL Research Consortium was formed to study the impact of the Emergency Transition to all-remote/online instruction in our state’s colleges and universities resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Consortium included researchers from Georgia State University and five other USG institutions. Two online surveys were designed and validated; one for instructors and one for students. Each participating institution received local IRB approval. Student and instructor data (choice responses and open-ended responses) were collected from every participating institution during May and June of 2020.

The aggregated data are currently being analyzed in preparation for submissions to refereed academic journals. The reports here include data only from GSU instructors (n = 676) and students (n = 2,271). Please note that these reports highlight key findings, but do not include the full range of survey data collected at Georgia State University.

SoTL Services

Services for individual faculty engaged in research on teaching and learning include:

For more information or to set up an appointment, contact Laura Carruth or Mike Metzler.

Dr. Laura Carruth
CETLOE Director
404-413-5340
lcarruth@gsu.edu
Dr. Mike Metzler
Associate Director, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
404-413-8373
mmetzler@gsu.edu

Publication Highlights!

Omer Ari (Clinical Assistant Professor, Middle and Secondary Education) examines competencies and conceptual knowledge developed by undergraduates who participated in a 2-month interdisciplinary research project in this study – Undergraduates as Interdisciplinary Researchers: Gains in Competencies and Conceptual Knowledge.

Barbara Robertson (Senior Lecturer, History & Political Science, Perimeter College) and Mark Flowers (Associate Chair, Economics, Perimeter College) published an article in Learning and Teaching that is very timely as instructors prepare to teach this fall. They examined the impact of lecture videos in online courses on student outcomes. You can read the paper here.

Explore SoTL through CETLOE’s – RECURSIVE: SOTL IN PROGRESS – Online Journal

Recursive: SoTL in Progress is an electronic journal and blog devoted to publishing the work of faculty engaged with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at Georgia State.

The first issue of Recursive Reviews is live, featuring three great reviews of pedagogy books that will be of interest to GSU instructors.

  • Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics, edited by Chris Friend - November 17, 2021
    Review by Danielle N. Gilman   In her Foreword to Hybrid Teaching: Pedagogy, People, Politics (Hybrid Pedagogy Inc., 2021),  Robin DeRosa describes the edited collection as a “tool” that has been created “at the intersection of where humaniti [...]
  • Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning, by Susan Hrach - November 17, 2021
    Review by Monica Carol Miller   As part of West Virginia University Press’s formidable Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series, Susan Hrach’s Minding Bodies (2021) makes an important contribution to the theoretically grounded, brain-bas [...]
  • Welcome to Our First Reviews Issue! - November 17, 2021
    A Note from The Reviews Editor Y’all, I couldn’t be more excited to share the first issue of Recursive Reviews with you! I’ve been working in critical/compassionate/digital pedagogy and faculty development for a little while now, and I can’t [...]

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