SoTL Fora and Communities
Collaboration and sharing across communities and landscapes of practice are essential activities to support and enhance our teaching and SoTL-related endeavours. Engaging with relevant communities helps us to develop our understandings and interpretations of the themes, topics and questions that we are reflecting on and exploring. It can also lead to useful connections and collaboration opportunities.
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Communities and activities here at Warwick.
HE organisations, networks and sector bodies.
Becoming a pedagogic journal reviewer.
Communities and activities here at Warwick
This table below highlights the great range of communities and events here at Warwick that might help to develop, inform and influence your own SoTL activities.
| An annual event to connect, share and inspire each other. |
A collaborative space for teaching-focused colleagues |
Open to all who teach at Warwick. |
| Constructive discussion space for enhancing student learning. |
A space for engagement and collaboration. |
Supporting online and blended learning. |
| Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) Supporting educational innovation at Warwick. |
Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community Range of activities to develop and support the postgraduate teaching community. |
Exploring key issues in learning, teaching and assessment. |
HE organisations, networks and sector bodies
Engaging in communities beyond the institution is extremely valuable for making wider connections and developing understandings of how others are approaching topics and addressing important issues.
Finding relevant external communities can be challenging. A good place to start is talking to your colleagues about the communities and networks that they find useful in supporting their pedagogic and scholarly endeavours.
In the short video (8:20mins) below, Kerry Dobbins introduces a range of non-discipline specific HE organisations, networks and sector bodies that offer access to useful resources and opportunities to connect with colleagues across the sector through teaching and learning events. A transcript is available in the video and you can access the powerpoint slides by clicking this link.
Becoming a pedagogic journal reviewer
Journal reviewing is a great way to engage with the wider pedagogic community and enhance our own scholarly skills. It can help us to keep up to date with latest developments and thinking, introduce us to new ideas, methods, techniques, etc., and stimulate our own thinking and practices.
The short video (11 mins) below outlines the specific nature of the reviewing role and the benefits it can bring to us as pedagogic scholars. It also offers guidance in finding reviewing opportunities:
The video transcript (including quotes referenced on the slides) can be accessed from this link.
Sources referred to in the video:
- Allen at al. (2022) Towards improving peer review: crowd-sourced insights from Twitter.
- Datta (2021) Peer review: pearls and pitfalls.
- Kelly et al. (2014) Peer review in scientific publications: benefits, critiques and a survival guide.
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Kerig (2021) Why participate in peer review?
Journals (or other) with active call out for reviewers:
- Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice - see the 'Join the JUTLP family' section.
- International Journal for Students as Partners - see the 'Peer review process' section.
- Educational Developments, the magazine of the Staff and Educational Development Association - see the 'Call for reviewers' section.