LibGuides: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning : SOTL

MCC’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Community

Scholarly inquiry and professional development are at the heart of effective teaching and student support. Faculty and staff need the opportunity to reflect upon and analyze their practice to ensure they are meeting the needs of an ever-evolving educational landscape. SoTL provides the platform for educators and student support professionals to frame scholarly inquiry in light of existing research, collaborate with faculty and staff, and create their own body of knowledge. Encouraging creativity and innovative thinking, SoTL promotes an equity-minded culture of persistence and student success.

- from the MCC SoTL website

MCC Resources

MCC SoTL Webpage
Scholarly inquiry and professional development are at the heart of effective teaching and student support
Institutional Research and Analytics at MCC
The Institutional Research team provides the College with data to make equity-based decisions
MCC Office of Professional and Instructional Development
The Office for Professional Development at Middlesex promotes professional/personal growth, applied scholarship, and innovative practices for faculty and staff

Chronicle of Higher Education

Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is academe's most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a number of free newsletters that you can subscribe to. For example, there is a community colleges newsletter and a new teaching newsletter.

Books and eBooks

Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Raise standards and improve learning for all students through equitable grading
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (eBook) also available in print
Postsecondary educators have started to ask more critical and practical questions related to education equity and engaged learning pedagogies. The new emphasis on equity addresses the changing realities and increasing demands on higher education for accountability and completion goals.
Implicit Bias: An Educator's Guide to the Language of Microaggressions
The authors define implicit bias and microaggressions, identify ways students of varying identities such as race, gender/LGBTQ+, religion, socioeconomic, ability, linguistic and family dynamics, experience microaggressions in schools, and offer an educator's guide to using culturally responsive teaching as an antidote to microaggressions.
Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education (eBook)
An in-depth look at Centers for Teaching and Learning and their profound impact on US higher education.

MCC Library Resources

MCC Library
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A-Z list of all MCC Library databases
Search the list of all MCC Library databases. The list includes descriptions of what information is included in each database, as well as why it is useful
Interlibrary Loan: Contact a librarian
Contact any librarian for help in finding and requesting materials from other libraries.

Browze Academic Journals with BrowZine

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- Why search here?
  BrowZine allows you to browse scholarly journals available from the MCC Libraries or from open sources on your computer, tablet, iPhone, or Android smartphone. Users can access thousands of scholarly journals anywhere you have WiFi access, view complete issues of journals including the table of contents, and create a personal library of up to 64 favorite journals for easy access.
- What's included?
  This is a full-text, academic journal database that provides full-page versions of current and recent issues of thousands of journals in a broad variety of subject areas.

Flipster: Digital Magazines

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- Why search here?
  Read digital copies of magazines on your computer, smartphone, or tablet using your library card! Choose from many popular titles for adults, teens, and kids with no holds and no limits. Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine distribution service where users can access their favorite magazines from a variety of publishers through their local libraries via a web browser or a custom app made specifically for the iPad or iPad mini, and download magazines to read offline, anytime, anywhere.
- What's included?
  Full-text, popular magazine database that provides full-page versions of current and recent issues of over 1,400 magazines, including titles in French and Spanish.