Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders
Journal Article
Webb, A. S., & Tierney, A. M. (2020)
Investigating support for scholarship of teaching and learning; we need SoTL educational leaders. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57(5), 613-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1635905
In this paper, we focus on the experience of faculty learning to do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Our two studies uncovered similar threshold concepts in So...
Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit
Conference Proceeding
Tierney, A., & McQueen, H. (2019)
Learning by design: 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit
Learning by Design’ was the theme of the 2018 OUP Bioscience Education Summit.
There were forty-eight delegates from 20 different UK HE institutes in attendance, representing ...
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2020)
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should it be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?. Studies in Higher Education, 45(1), 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1574732
This paper is a response to Cotton, Miller and Kneale’s 2017 paper on the current state of higher education research within UK universities. It seeks to contribute to the deba...
Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences
Book Chapter
Scott, G., & Tierney, A. (2018)
Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences. In E. Cleaver, M. Lintern, & M. McLinden (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational EnquirySAGE Publications
No abstract available.
The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving.
Other
Tierney, A. (2018)
The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving
In response to Richard Arum’s charge that higher education research is failing to sufficiently investigate university teaching, Anne Tierney gives concrete examples of the con...
Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics
Presentation / Conference
Tierney, A. (2017, December)
Opportunities for Brokering between Teaching-Focused and Research-Focused UK Life Science Academics. Paper presented at Society for Research into Higher Education Annual Research Conference, Celtic Manor, Newport
Life Sciences teaching-focused academics working in UK universities have been an expanding and emergent group in the past two decades. However, despite their successes in supp...
Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2017)
Threshold Concepts in Academic Practice: Engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Practice and evidence of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, 12(2), 165-184
This paper investigates the existence and nature of threshold concepts as experienced by a group of twenty-one teaching-focused academics, from life science departments in UK ...
Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices
Presentation / Conference
Tierney, A. (2016, July)
Brokering between communities of practice: strenghening learning with co-operative practices. Paper presented at Improving Univesity Teaching, University of Durham
There is a growing trend in Higher Education to separate researchers' and teachers' roles. In the UK, pressure for this comes from the Research Excellence Framework, which dem...
SoTL Developments through Threshold Concepts
Presentation / Conference
Tierney, A., & Webb, A. (2016, June)
SoTL Developments through Threshold Concepts. Paper presented at 6th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference
No abstract available.
The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation
Conference Proceeding
Tierney, A. (2016)
The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation. In Conference Proceedings 2015
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is being promoted as an activity for teaching-focused academics in the UK. However, support for SoTL is not a priority for most...