From Individual Pathways to Institutional Cultures: SoTL in our Academic Lives

One of the joys of being active in SoTL is discovering all the different ways our own academic journeys bring us to this burgeoning field. For many seasoned academics, SoTL can be a second pathway as we work towards deeper understanding of student learning and our own teaching. However, our academic lives must intersect with the institutional cultures we exist within. Cultures can be affirming but they can also be deterring. In this talk, I shall discuss some ideas viewing SoTL work from a variety of different levels of institutional impact, re-connect it broadly to the Boyer model and also place it within an international context.

S. Raj Chaudhury, Ph.D.

Executive Director
Innovation in Learning Center and USAonline
Associate Professor of Physics
University of South Alabama

S. Raj Chaudhury is the Executive Director of the Innovation in Learning Center and USAonline at the University of South Alabama where he also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Physics and is the founding director of the USA Indian Music Ensemble. He serves as the 2022-23 President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, almost two decades after he was initiated into SoTL as a Carnegie Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation. His funded research and publications have been in the area of undergraduate STEM education reform, research based pedagogies and technologies and educational development.