2019 SYMPOSIUM ON SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING | ENGAGING STUDENTS | ENGAGING FACULTY PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE November 7 – 9, 2019 | Banff, Alberta, Canada Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning INSTITUTE FOR SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING 3300 Riddell Library and Learning Centre Mount Royal University 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary Alberta Canada T3E 6K6 T 403 440 5503 E [email protected] WEB mtroyal.ca/isotl BLOG blogs.mtroyal.ca/isotl TWITTER @I_SoTL We gratefully acknowledge photos of Banff, Alberta provided by Sarah Hewitt, Mount Royal University. Welcome to the 2019 Symposium Message from the Academic Director Dear Symposium Presenters, Attendees, Friends, and Guests: On behalf of the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University, I would like to warmly welcome you to the 9th Annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. We have gathered each year as a scholarly community to share our questions and discoveries in teaching and learning in the post-secondary context with the exception of 2017 when we hosted ISSOTL 2017 with partners at the University of Calgary. We are excited to share the next few days with you. This year, we are again looking forward to our line-up of keynote speakers, pre-conference sessions, presentations, and posters. The cracker barrel session, which provides a more intimate format for presentation and discussion was so successful last year, we are doing it again on Friday. We also reprise the incredible Pop-Up Poetry – be sure to sit down with a poet to have your very own Symposium poem composed! Concurrent sessions have been organized into themes of research on teaching and learning, involving undergraduate students in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), teaching and learning with technology, collaboration beyond the single classroom, methodologies and innovative approaches to data gathering and analysis, and calls for collaboration and development. Our Symposium begins with four preconference sessions in two tracks – one on partnering with students, and the other on research methods. Following these workshops, we will open the Symposium with a reception, banquet, and keynote presentation from Dr. Elizabeth Marquis of McMaster University, Senior Editor of the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and co-Editor of the International Journal for Students as Partners. Her talk will speak to student-faculty partnerships, and how such partnerships have the potential to create a more equitable future. She will also join us on Friday’s plenary panel, Getting SoTL Published, along with Dr. Cherie Woolmer (McMaster University) and Dr. Karen Manarin (Mount Royal University). Saturday’s closing keynote will feature Kara Loy, Associate Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching at Thompson Rivers University who will speak about developing a vibrant culture of undergraduate research. Full bios and synopses of the talks are found in the following pages. As we begin, I would like to thank those who have worked so hard to make this year’s Symposium a success: Karen Manarin, Deb Bennett, Sally Haney, and Margy MacMillan, and to Sarah Hewitt, who is not only a SoTL researcher and MRU faculty member, but will again this year be documenting the Symposium with photography. A special thank-you to Anne Johnston, co-ordinator of the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, who makes it all happen - at the Symposium itself and preparing throughout the year. I would also like to acknowledge the generous support received from Mount Royal University’s Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement whose funding supported our Closing Keynote and the Academic Development Centre whose funding supported our Opening Reception. Finally, thank you to all of the reviewers who gave of their time to ensure a quality peer-review process. I look forward to engaging with all of you, our local, national, and international SoTL community, over these three enriching days. Michelle Yeo, PhD Academic Director, Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Development Consultant, Academic Development Centre President, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2019 SYMPOSIUM ISOTL 1 Invited Keynote Speakers Elizabeth Marquis, PhD Elizabeth Marquis is an Assistant Professor in the Arts & Science Program and the School of the Arts at McMaster University and Associate Director (Research) at McMaster’s Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation, and Excellence in Teaching. She is a former co-President (with Katarina Mårtensson) of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL), and currently serves as Senior Editor of the Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and co-Editor of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP). Beth’s SoTL research focuses primarily on the intersections between teaching and learning and questions of equity and justice, and on film and media texts as public pedagogy. She’s also committed to supporting and researching student-staff partnerships in postsecondary education, and co-developed and currently oversees McMaster’s Student Scholars Program (SPP)—an initiative that supports more than 200 students, faculty, and staff at McMaster to work in partnership on teaching and learning projects annually. Alongside student and staff colleagues, she’s also leading a SSHRC funded project that assesses the potential of an equity-focused stream of the SPP to contribute to equity and inclusion in postsecondary teaching and learning. Beth publishes and presents regularly (often in partnership with students), and her work can be found in journals such as The Canadian Journal of Higher Education; Higher Education Research & Development; The International Journal for Academic Development; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; Pedagogy, Culture, & Society; Teaching in Higher Education; and Teaching & Learning Inquiry. 2 ISoTL 2019 SYMPOSIUM Opening Keynote Presentation Engaging as Partners: Student-Faculty Partnership and the Promise of More Equitable Institutions A growing body of scholarship demonstrates the benefits of student-faculty/staff partnership in teaching, learning, and SoTL. When students and faculty or staff collaborate actively on teaching and learning projects, opportunities for mutual learning and growth are established, and curricula, scholarship, and teaching and learning practices are often enhanced. This interactive keynote address will explore the ways in which such partnership approaches interface with issues of equity and inclusion in postsecondary education. In particular, I will consider the increasingly common claim that engaging as partners can contribute to redressing entrenched inequities in colleges and universities, illustrating the real potential of partnership in this regard while also articulating some cautions and potential complications. Drawing on a range of research that documents the perspectives and experiences of university students, faculty, and staff who occupy a variety of institutional positions and social locations, I will propose a series of principles that might enhance our capacity to contribute to educational equity via student-faculty/staff partnership. Participants will be invited to consider the ways in which they engage (or do not engage) in partnership in their own work, to critique and build on these proposed principles, and to collectively explore how we might (better) contribute to equity in our institutions through our teaching, learning, and SoTL endeavours. 2019 SYMPOSIUM ISOTL 3 Invited Keynote Speakers Kara Loy Kara Loy is Associate Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops, British Columbia (BC) and a current Councilor with the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), undergraduate research programs division. Prior to joining TRU she worked at the University of Saskatchewan, most recently as the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Research Initiative, and previously as Campus Consultant for English for Academic Purposes (EAP). As an advocate for finding more joy, fun and connection in our experiences of academia, she is a proponent of international and intercultural collaborative teaching and scholarship in digital spaces. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary in the area of Educational Leadership. In this research she is looking into how professors are leading change in Canadian higher education through professional practices and networks relating to their research, teaching and service. Her primary delight in serving as a post-secondary administrator is in supporting transformative experiences for students, faculty and staff. Ideally, these experiences reflect valuing students as partners, building students’ professional skills through experiential learning, and leading innovative and reflective practices. You can follow Kara Loy on twitter @kllever1. 4 ISoTL 2019 SYMPOSIUM Closing Keynote Presentation: Harvesting SOTL from the Fields From recent work at two distinct universities in Western Canada, I am concerned with how to effectively cultivate a culture of excellence in teaching and learning and discovery. In this address, I will share how a collaborative pedagogy of discovery invigorated first-year students, graduate student research coaches,