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SoLT Research Network

La Trobe University Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Research Network

The aim of the SoLT Research Network is to advance the theory, research and writing about learning and teaching (also known as educational or pedagogical research) at La Trobe University.

It will provide those researching teaching and learning in higher education and those concerned with improving their own practice with opportunities to collaborate on writing papers and grant proposals. All staff are welcome to attend the lunchtime ‘Brown Bag’ meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Bundoora and Bendigo. A special invitation is extended to the alumni of ADU and CTLC professional development programs.

The SoLT Network is being convened by the CTLC’s Curriculum and Academic Developers. We launched the SoLT meetings on October 13th, 2009 with an open session to discuss the projects and interests of members of the network, and framed a program for the 2010 academic year.

Ideas for SoLT Network topics and activities:

Networking and collaborating in research to write about leaning and teaching in HE
Journal club – Which Higher Education Journals to target and how to succeed
Writing group – supporting staff to write using Brown’s eight key ideas for writing
Disseminating scholarly and research papers and ideas
Applying for Teaching and Learning grants and awards
Developing effective teaching portfolios for probation and promotion
Lobbying for Scholarship of Learning and Teaching

Other ideas welcome

Events for 2010

Date	Where	Topic	Comments
Tues Jan 12	Bundoora: CTLC Mtg Room	Claire Brooks, Library Information Literacy Project	Facilitator -Dr Judith Lyons
Tues 9 Feb	Bendigo: BUS129 Board Rm	“Initiating Collaboration” – All previous attendees and new members are asked to bring recent T&L publications and future ideas and to present these briefly to enable the formation of special interest groups. These groups will then meet briefly to discuss options for T&L grants. At this meeting, an updated list of T&L related journals will be distributed and each member will be allocated a journal on which they will report at the next meeting.
Tues Feb 16	Bundoora: CTLC Rm, HU2, 104	What do I do with qualitative data? Coding and categorising qualitative evaluation and research data. Researcher panel: Dr Chris Peterson, Bernadette Knewstubb, John Hannon	Facilitator - Dr Tai Peseta
Tue Mar 9	Bendigo: BUS129 Board room	”Journal Insiders”- Members will present details about each teaching and learning related journal according to the following criteria: Journal rankings and impact factors, number of issues per year, place of publication, likely audience, perceived difficulty of acceptance, common topics/ threads of discussion etc. The aim of this process is to review all of the possible places for publication of T&L papers and create a list for members to use when seeking a fit for their particular paper	Facilitator - Dr Judith Lyons
Tues Mar 9	Bundoora: CTLC Meeting Rm	Ric Canale:Brown's 8 questions Mary Kennedy-Jones: Discussion of a pre-conference paper.	Facilitator - Dr Jeanette Fyffe
Tue Apr 13	Bendigo: ART303	“ALTC Grant Writing Workshop”- Special interest groups established in the February meeting would have had time to meet and put together some ideas for a grant proposal. In this meeting, these groups will further develop their ideas into ALTC or other Teaching and Learning grant proposals. Judith Lyons will facilitate this process and provide feedback and direction for each group to improve the chances of grant success.	Facilitator - Dr Judith Lyons
Tue Apr 13	Bundoora: CTLC Meeting Rm	Prof Tom Angelo: A discussion on clarifying educational research questions	Facilitator -Tom Angelo
Future	sessions	Conducting interviews and focus groups Ethics approval for educational projects Methodologies

SoLT Resources

Brown’s 8 questions for writing (Word document)

ERA higher education journal list (ARC website)

ERA at RGSO

SoLT – to La Trobe University Scholarship of Learning & Teaching page.

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Activities for SoLT 2009

Contact: Dr Judith Lyons phone 3528, judith.lyons@latrobe.edu.au

Bundoora - CTLC - Dr Jeanette Fyffe, John Hannon, Dr Judith Lyons, Dr Tai Peseta, Professor Tom Angelo, Dr Ric Canale and Alyson Waterson

Bendigo Facilitators - Dr Zali Yager, Dr Katherine Legge, Adele Callaghan-Williams and team with CTLC.

Comments (2)

Welcome, all staff are invited to the SoLT Research Network - just attend the meetings, network and join in. Feel free to continue your collaboration here online. If you wish to present your work at either Bundoora or Bendigo SoLT meetings just let the CTLC Team know so we can schedule you in the program. All ideas supporting and advanceing learning and teaching are welcome.