SoTL Conference
This conference aims to address all aspects of teaching-learning-assessment (TLA) at SU in an open, supportive and intellectually stimulating atmosphere.
It provides a platform where academics can:
share best practices, research findings and innovative ideas about teaching and learning;
reflect on and debate about teaching and learning methods, trends and goals within the current context; and
celebrate teaching and learning.
This is an in-house conference offered to Stellenbosch University staff. Prize winners are selected yearly, and the prizes include the attendance of a TLA conference to further the scholarship of the winners' TLA.
2024 SoTL winners
Best Innovation Poster
Telanie van der Walt & Agatha Lebethe (Education)
Virtual Minds: Enhancing Mathematics through avatar-driven interaction
Best PREDAC Poster
Justin Lashbrooke, Cecile Bester & Manuela Campa (Agrisciences)
Is artificial intelligence ready for marking?
Delegates' Choice
Lennox Olivier (Arts & Social Sciences)
Integrating Al into undergraduate assessments
2023 SoTL winners
Research Track
Dr Elzahn Rinquest (Faculty of Education)
Research Track
Ms Dalecia Davids (Faculty of Education)
Innovation Track
Dr Karolien Perold-Bull (Faculty of FASS)
Innovation Track
Ms Mieke Hall (Faculty of FASS)
Innovation Track
Mr Thumbiran Kiveshan (Faculty of FASS)
Delegates' Choice
Dr Jaco Kemp (Faculty of FASS)
Best Poster
Dr Brendon Pearce (Faculty of Agriscience)
Best Poster
Dr Estelle Kempen (Faculty of Agriscience)
Best Poster
Dr Michael Wolf (Faculty of Agriscience)
Best Poster
Ms Abongile Feni (Faculty of Agriscience)
2022 SoTL winners
Research Track
Title: “Towards a framework for the development of teamwork skills in Accounting students"
Riana Goosen & Gretha Steenkamp (School of Accountancy)
Innovation Track
Title: "Teaching identity construction in academic texts through modality and visuals"
Taryn Bernard (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
Delegates' Choice
Title: “Bringing Africa into the classroom"
Patricia Zweig (Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction)
Best PREDAC Poster
Title: “Procrastination is the thief of time"
Melissa Botha, Kerotse Kekana & Sabrina Matthee (Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences)
2021 SoTL winners
Research Track
Title: “Being and becoming a Master of Health Professions Education"
Ms Mariette Volschenk; Prof Susan van Schalkwyk and Prof Eli Bitzer
Innovation Track
Title: “Engineering report writing peer learning system"
Prof Craig McGregor
Reflection track
Title: “The evolving role of an academic online mentoring programme"
Patricia Zweig (Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction)
Delegates' Choice
Title: “Let’s let them ‘cheat’! Group work in a summative assessment setting”
Prof Gareth Arnott; Dr Margaret Blackie and Dr Catherine Kaschula
Best PREDAC Poster
Title: “Interactive content assessment in counter-intelligence theory: assessing cognitive learning in reading, comprehension and writing"
Capt (SAN) Dr Dries A Putter; Lt Col Dr Susan Henrico; Lt Col Dr Marcel Reutener; Col Hlengiwe Mkhize; and Mr Godfrey Ramuhlala
Previous SoTL winners
Best Research-Based Paper
Title: Strategies to teach graduate attributes – a scoping review
The late Dr Alwyn Louw and Dr Tiana Schultz
Best Practice-Based Paper
Title: Class recordings in a post-graduate financial accounting course: Student perceptions
Ms Gretha Steenkamp and Mr Alwyn Visser
Best Reflection-Based Paper
Title: Unintended benefits of an e-block toward clinical competence in physiotherapy
Ms AMS Schmutz, Dr Alison Lupton-Smith and Dr Marianne Unger
Delegates' Choice
Title: Institutional obstacles to authentic transformation at Stellenbosch University
Dr Anita Jonker
Best PREDAC Poster
Title: Twenty-first-century learning: Keeping up with Gen Z
Dr Marlon le Roux & Dr Ethel Phiri
Previous SoTL winners
2018
Best Research-Based Paper
Title: Craig Who? Developing Students’ Scientific Discourse through Collaborative Pedagogy
Mouton, M. & Rootman-Le Grange, I.
Best Practice-Based Paper
Title: Blended, Interactive Learning and The Ratio Table
Southey, P.
Delegate's Choice
Title: A Prison-University Educational Partnership: Rehumanising Learning through Collaborative Course Design
Nel, M.
2018
Title: Gamification For the Win!... or not? Evaluating Student Perceptions
Barnard, M., Adams, S. & du Preez, R
Best Practice-Based Paper
Title: Unique ways to enhance critical thinking in Physiology undergraduate classes
Essop, F
Title: Concepts in context
Southey, P
2017
Title: Inhabiting a more ambiguous self : Using discomfort to explore issues of social justice
McKay, M
2016
Title: Towards an evidence-based framework for clinical training on a rural platform: The outcome of a five-year longitudinal mixed methods study
Van Schalkwyk, S.; Blitz, J.; Conradie, H.; Fish, T.; Kok, N.; Van Heerden, B.; De Villiers, M.
2015
Title: Embedding Graduate Attributes into Curriculum Development in the First Year of an Occupational Therapy Program
Plastow, N.; Van Niekerk, L.; De Klerk, S.; Bester, J.; Vlok, B.; Jacobs Nzuzi Kuabi, L.; Cloete, L.; Fredericks, J.; Coetzee, Z.; Sheik Ismail A
2014
Title: Using CBI, SFL and CEAP to integrate content and language learning in a higher education context
Bernard, T
2012
Title: Economics' adventure into the land of collaborative, problem based learning...Part 1
Nieuwoudt, L
2011
Title: Using Cell Phones and Peer Instruction to enhance Unverstanding and Learning of Chemistry in Large Firty-year classes
Lutz, M
2010
Title: "Hey Trantino, show me your pituitary!"
Dempers, J.; Janse van Rensburg, M.; Verster, J.; Bezuidenhout, J