SoTL: Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning
Problem-based Learning
Learning how to resolve complex problems with PBL
• Students work in groups to
learn from others as they solve
ill-structured problems
• Designed to increase critical
thinking, analytical, and
presentation skills as students
ponder:
• What is the problem?
• What information is
needed?
• Who should be involved?
• What are the relevant legal
issues?
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Lee Hays
Research-Based Teaching Innovations
Incorporating proven teaching practices
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NSF Grant – Applying Second Language Learning Techniques to Learning
Programming (with Christina Frederick)
Flipping the Classroom, Screencasts (with Hongyun Chen, Shuo Pang)
Peer Instruction and Poll Everywhere
Supplemental Multimedia Online Learning Tool (SMOLT) in Engineering
Education
Active Learning and Inquiry Guided Learning in a Graphical
Communications Class
Lulu Sun
Locus of Control
Examining students’ perceptions about
who is responsible for student learning.
Farshid Azadian
Deliberate Practice, Adaptive
Learning, Entrepreneurship
Enhancing learning in a variety of ways
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Using Deliberate Practice and
Adaptive Learning in a Dynamics
Course
Collaborations between Math,
Physics, and Engineering Teaching
(with Jayathi Raghavan, Bereket
Berhane)
Service Learning and
Entrepreneurship – Project Haiti
(with Marc Compere)
Using Concept Maps in Teaching
Yan Tang
Service Learning
Environment Science Students Making a Difference
Emily Faulconer
Professional Presentation Skills
Aligning with Aviation Industry expectations
Among the organizations contacted, PowerPoint was the only
software package used.
Many companies prefer the use of templates to standardize
presentations
Based on the data collected, the next phase of the
project involves preparing ERAU students to
give professional presentations in their industry
Janet Tinoco
SOTL, Service Learning, and STEM
Improving Students’ STEM Literacies
Knowledge of
Teaching and
Learning
Scholarly Teaching
SOTL
Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning
Sally Blomstrom