The WALTer Toolkit: Resources for Building and Sustaining a Culture of SoTL
Conference Tracks
Academic/ Professional Development - Research
Abstract
In 2018, Duke University launched an initiative to expand teaching research across the university. We called this initiative WALTer, a reference to the phrase “We are learning too!” that appeared at the top of all our student consent forms for SoTL. WALTer provided faculty members with the knowledge, resources, and incentives needed to do impactful research on our campus and beyond. In this presentation, we describe WALTer and the associated exponential increase in SoTL projects at Duke. We also share the WALTer 2.0 toolkit resources so attendees can implement a similar initiative at their universities.
Session Format
Presentation
1
Location
Scarbrough One
Recommended Citation
Manturuk, Kim and Reavis, Grey, "The WALTer Toolkit: Resources for Building and Sustaining a Culture of SoTL" (2020). SoTL Commons Conference. 41.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2020/41
The WALTer Toolkit: Resources for Building and Sustaining a Culture of SoTL
Scarbrough One
In 2018, Duke University launched an initiative to expand teaching research across the university. We called this initiative WALTer, a reference to the phrase “We are learning too!” that appeared at the top of all our student consent forms for SoTL. WALTer provided faculty members with the knowledge, resources, and incentives needed to do impactful research on our campus and beyond. In this presentation, we describe WALTer and the associated exponential increase in SoTL projects at Duke. We also share the WALTer 2.0 toolkit resources so attendees can implement a similar initiative at their universities.
