Sharing
Ideas
There are many ways you can share your ideas and learn from others.
Examples include attending and/or presenting at educational conferences and online webinars. It could be as a guest for LTHEchat or by sharing your work on the National Teaching Repository. ResearchGate and Academia.edu are also useful to look at and contribute to. You might want to consider creating a blog to share your work or write a post on LinkedIn. It can really help to read other educator’s posts to see how impactful they can be. Other spaces to share your ideas include podcasts, videos and infographic posters. These can also be shared via social media. within Bluesky for example there a growing network of educators to interact with.
You can find a Bluesky user guide for academics and a starter pack for who you might want to follow on the social media for learning website.
LTHEchat
About: The Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Chat #LTHEchat is a weekly conversation for educators that takes place on Bluesky Wednesday 8-9pm. Guests can volunteer to provide a topic for discussion along with six questions. To promote the chat and chosen focus, the guests also write a short blog post. This is a great opportunity to share any resources, for example books, papers and videos. You can follow @LTHEchat on Bluesky and find out more on the LTHEchat website. If you would like to volunteer to be a guest please complete this form to find out more.
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Guidance on getting started with LTHEchat
Take a look at this slidedeck which explains how to get started and what to expect.
Examples of LTHEchats focussing on scholarship:
Breaking boundaries: career progression and education focussed roles with by David Walker @drdjwalker and Susan Smith @SmithySusanA
Transitions into Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) with Linnea Soler @DrLinneaSoler and Nathalie Sheridan @drnsheridan
Bringing Scholarship to Life with Sarah Broadberry @DrSBroadberry
Support for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) with Christina Elliott @Dr_CL_Elliott, Scott Turner @scottturneruon and Sarah Honeychurch @NomadWarMachine
4 Pillars of SoTL with Laura Stinson @lstinson81
National Teaching Repository
About: The National Teaching Repository (NTR) is an open access online searchable database where tried and tested strategies ‘that work’ can be housed and harvested. It’s a space where colleagues can upload and share teaching resources, pedagogical research, approaches and ideas. It allows you to showcase your practice in a range of non-traditional research formats including data, books, reports, code, videos, images, audio recordings, posters, and presentations. Each item is given a unique digital object identifier (DOI). Through sharing these resources, they not only help others, but contributors gain recognition and acknowledgement for the resources, and are able to evidence of the impact of their work in practice. It is a space that anyone can search and access hands-on, practical ideas and resources, off the shelf ready to use or to adapt, for implementation in their own settings. You can follow the National Teaching Repository on Bluesky.
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Examples of SoTL resources shared:
Scholarly, Scholarship, SoTL Cheat Sheet by Nathalie Tasler
A practical approach to amplifying scholarly practice through digital technology by Sue Beckingham and Dawne Irving-Bell
Speed SOTL Discussion Cards – Assessment by Laura Stinson and Kate Cuthbert.
Why Engage with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? by Anne Tierney
Scholarship Spotlight 