Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: A Faculty Roundtable

Description

Dr. Maryellen Weimer will speak to the core themes of her book Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning, with particular attention to understanding how this body of research can be legitimized and advocated for across disciplines. This discussion will foster understanding of the value of two main categories of SoTL work - the wisdom of scholarship and research scholarship. Advice for both SoTL scholars as well as administrator allies who wish to more deeply understand and/or encourage the scholarship of teaching and learning will be provided.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Research and Public Service and the Faculty Research Council.

Biographical Sketch

In 2007 MARYELLEN WEIMER retired from Penn State as a Professor Emeritus of Teaching and Learning. For the last 13 years of her career at Penn State she taught communication courses, first year seminars and other courses business students at one of Penn State's regional campus colleges. In 2005 she won Penn State's Milton S. Eisenhower award for distinguished teaching.
Before returning to full time teaching, Dr. Weimer was the Associate Director of the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment, a five year, $5.9 million, U. S. Department of Education research and development center. The Center, a consortium of six universities, was part of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State University where Dr. Weimer was a senior research associate.