Media

The Humber College team reflects on their experience in our workshop: "This session proved revelatory, offering insights into the dynamics of knowledge sharing, particularly within the SoTL realm. The workshop's focus on alternative metrics and digital presence broadened our understanding of academic value beyond traditional measures. It spurred us to continue exploring new avenues for sharing and measuring the impact of our work." Read more here.

On this podcast, Dr. Erika Smith, Richard Hayman, and Constance Sheriff discuss how to practically and painlessly share your research for broader impact. We explain how using strategies like Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Translation, and finding support through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning can help dismantle barriers in dissemination–especially when researchers strive to become Networked Scholars. Read more here.

Helping students and faculty navigate a raging river of online information, some of it fake, makes Mount Royal University an engaging environment for Erika Smith, PhD, an educational researcher focused on social media in undergraduate learning.

Mount Royal researchers spent months examining Facebook comments, reactions and posts. This wasn’t their chosen method of procrastination, it was the subject of their recently published paper that challenges post-secondary institutions to understand the popular online platforms where undergraduate students engage with teaching and learning topics. Read more here.

My student collaborator and researcher Hannah Storrs describes the importance of building and applying a wide range of scholarly knowledge and skills.