2013 SUN CONFERENCE

Thank you!

Thank you for attending the 2013 Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning!
We hope your experience at the conference was enjoyable and worth your while.
Special thanks to all session presenters, keynote speakers, sponsors and exhibitors, our faculty committee, our wonderful staff, and everyone involved in making this conference a success.
We will be posting some additional resources in the coming weeks so make sure to visit our website soon!
We enjoyed seeing all of you and we are already looking forward to next year, March 6 and 7, 2014.
We hope we made an impact!

Best,
CETaL Team

SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

20-minute session (15 minutes + 5 minutes Q & A)

A proposal in this category stands a good chance to be accepted in a scholarly journal. It presents a testable hypothesis based in the teaching and learning literature, appropriate research methods, provides evidence that data has been collected and analyzed, and implications for better practice in teaching and learning have been formulated. The question, “Does this presentation add new information to our collective understanding of teaching and learning?” should be answered positively. This type of presentation may be presented as it would be at a research conference.

Preferred organizational structure for 20 minute presentations:

Present the research question/problem and the relevant research literature.
Present the research hypothesis and how it relates to the research question/problem.
Present the experimental methods used.
Report the qualitative and/or quantitative outcomes (i.e. How did students respond? Did their learning improve compared to…?)
Present the impact of your outcomes on our current understanding of the issue. What is unique about them and what do they add to what we already know?
Present your evaluation of the process and propose next steps you plan to take.

Please practice your presentation in advance. Moderators will use timers to help everyone stay on time and prevent the audience from missing parts of subsequent presentations.

If you want to enter your paper in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award competition you must submit a complete article. This may be a draft you plan to submit to a journal, a final draft that you have submitted to a journal, a manuscript that is in press; or an article that has been published in 2011 or 2012 that was not presented at the 2012 Sun Conference (we want to promote recent SOTL work at UTEP to the UTEP community).

Welcome to The Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning

What is the Sun Conference?

The Sun Conference is dedicated to building a community of teachers primarily in higher education whose commitment to instructional excellence transcend disciplinary, cultural, and national barriers. The focus of the conference is on the scholarship of teaching and learning, as well as practical, applied strategies, tools, and techniques based on well-founded teaching and learning principles.

The Sun conference aims to enhance teaching and learning especially in the region and among minority serving institutions in order to help students become successful professionals and responsible citizens.

The conference includes scholarly presentations, round table discussions, interactive workshops, and informal gatherings during breakfast and lunch, providing ample opportunity to explore questions, exchange ideas, and learn novel approaches to effective teaching and learning challenges in classroom, community/experience-based, or computer-based courses.

Who Should Attend?

All university, community college and school district faculty, instructional staff, teaching assistants, instructional developers, and administrators with an interest in higher education teaching and learning are invited to share innovative teaching practices, and explore transformative college and university teaching methods and strategies. A special invitation is extended to those who serve these roles at institutions of higher education in New Mexico, Arizona, and West Texas, as well as minority serving institutions that support a 21st century student demographic.