Stirring Minds: From STEM to SoTL
From STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning): A Difficult Journey On February 23, 2012, Engineer Susan Nesbit and Scientist Niamh Kelly discussed their transition from STEM practitioners to SoTL scholars. The story of their journey inspired their audience of scholars and graduate students to begin a dialogue. […]
DIY Academic Journal Publishing
Dr. Lawrence D. Berg presented Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Academic Journal Publishing in the Age of the Knowledge Enclosure. This presentation outlined opportunities for creating new scholarly publication venues in the age of academic capitalism and the knowledge enclosure. Dr. Berg began his discussion about the wider cultural and political economic context within which one needs to […]