STLHE 2018 — Day 2 — We Gave the Talk!

We gave the talk! The slides are available here:

Start, Stop, Continue and Ticket Out of the Door: Collecting and
using student feedback to improve teaching in a large first-year math
class by Xinli Wang and Parker Glynn-Adey (University of Toronto Mississauga).

It worked out great and we got lots of good feedback about feedback! Afterwards, I attended: Design Thinking as Method, Madness & Mindset by Farhad Dastur of Kwantlen Polytechnic University. We did the marshmallow tower challenge, and it was super fun. We started building early on and managed to cooperate well under pressure. Photos below the cut.

I also had a lovely chat with Diana Skzrydlo, where she outlined her work on teaching students Markov chains by having them play a simulation game. You can read a bit about it at the bottom of her teaching blog here.

Some photos from the day are below the cut.

STLHE 2018 — Day 1 — Pre-Conference

Lots of great ideas today! Ahg! It was amazing. I went to a workshop on conducting SoTL research. That was the first session of the pre-conference, and it made the whole conference worth while. I am thrilled.

Some great references and guides:

• Calgary Guide to SoTL (Yo! Mike Pawliuk!)
• Vanderbuilt Guide to SoTL

Journals that are highly connected to the conference:

• Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching

Some reference to track down in Toronto:

• Creswell, J.W. (2013). Qualitative inquiry and research design: choosing among five approaches.
• Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, and Keith Morrison (2011). Research methods in education.
• Martella Ronald , Nelson J Ron , Morgan Robert et al. (2013). Understanding and Interpreting Educational Research