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.
2025 SoTL winners
Best Research on TLA paper
Experiential Learning for Citizenship Education: Navigating Language and Culture
Ms Remerta Basson, Ms Gail Fortuin, Ms Nerita Malan, Ms Mari Patterson, Ms Lee-Ann Pietersen [School of Accounting, EMS]
Best Reflection on TLA practice or theory paper
HeartWorks: A Visual Arts and Physiology Teaching and Learning Collaboration
Prof Kathryn Smith, Mr Jonah Sack, Prof Faadiel Essop
Visual Arts, FASS (Prof Smith and Mr Sack) and Medical Physiology, FMHS (Prof Essop)
Delegates' Choice
We Were Wondering ... Collaborative Poetry in Health Professions Education
Ms Maria van Zyl, Dr Jana Muller, Ms Silindokuhle Nyezi, Ms Lizanne van der Walt [FMHS]
Best PREDAC Poster
Learning through Reflection: Teaching Winemaking as Both Science and Art
Mr Sandile Mkhwanazi, Mr Thembelani Mthoko, Mr Mpumelelo Somtsewu [AgriSciences (Elsenburg)]
2024 SoTL Conference Prizewinners
Best Innovation Poster | ||||
| Virtual Minds: Enhancing Mathematics through avatar-driven interaction | Telanie van der Walt and Agatha Lebethe | Faculty of Education | |
Best PREDAC Poster | |||
| Is artificial intelligence ready for marking? | Justin Lashbrooke, Cecile Bester, & Manuela Campa | Faculty of AgriSciences |
Delegate's Choice | |||
| Integrating AI into undergraduate assessments | Lennox Olivier | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
2023 SoTL Conference Prizewinners
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Dr Elzahn Rinquest and Ms Delecia Davids Faculty of Education | ||
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Dr Karolien Perold-Bull, Ms Mieke Hall, Mr Thumbiran Kiveshan Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | ||
Best PREDAC Poster | |||
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Dr Brendon Pierce, Dr Estelle Pierce, Dr Michael Wolf, Ms Abongile Feni Faculty of AgriSciences | |||
Delegate's Choice | ||
| Dr Jaco Kemp | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
2022 SoTL Conference Prizewinners
Research Track | ||
| Towards a framework for the development of teamwork skills in Accounting students | Riana Goosen and Gretha Steenkamp | Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences School of Accounting |
Innovation Track | ||
| Teaching identity construction in academic texts through modality and visuals | Taryn Bernard | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Best PREDAC Poster | ||
| Procrastination is the thief of time | Melissa Botha, Kerotse Kekana & Sabrina Matthee | Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences |
Delegate's Choice | ||
| Bringing Africa into the classroom | Patricia Zweig | Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction |
2021 SoTL Conference Prizewinners
Research Track | ||
| Being and becoming a Master of Health Professions Education | Mariette Volschenk, Susan van Scalkwyk, and Eli Bitzer | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Centre for Health Professions Education |
Innovation Track | ||
| Engineering report writing peer learning system | Craig McGregor | Faculty |
Reflection Track | ||
| The evolving role of an academic online mentoring programme | Patricia Zweig | Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction |
Delegate's Choice | ||
| Let's let them 'cheat'! Group work in a summative assessment setting | Gareth Arnott, Margaret Blackie, and Catherine Kascula | Faculty of Science |
Best PREDAC Poster | ||
| 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 Mkize, and Mr Godfrey Ramuhlala | Faculty of Military Science |
2020 SoTL Conference Prizewinners
Best Research-based Paper | ||
| Strategies to teach graduate attributes - a scoping review | Tiana Schultz and the late Alwyn Louw | Faculty |
Best Practice-Based Paper | ||
| Class recordings in a post-graduate financial accounting course: Student perceptions | Ms Gretha Steenkamp and Mr Alwyn Visser | Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences School of Accountancy |
Best Reflection-Based Paper | ||
| Unintended benefits of an e-block toward clinical competence in physiotherapy | Ms AMS Schmutz, Dr Alison Lupton-Smith and Dr Marianne Unger | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
Delegate's Choice | ||
| Institutional obstacles to authentic transformation at Stellenbosch University | Dr Anita Jonker | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Best PREDAC Poster | ||
| Twenty-first-century learning: Keeping up with Gen Z | Dr Marlon le Roux & Dr Ethel Phiri | Faculty of Science |
2018 SoTL Conference Prizewinners
Best Research-Based Paper | ||
| Craig Who? Developing Students’ Scientific Discourse through Collaborative Pedagogy | Marnel Mouton and Ilse Rootman-Le Grange | Faculty of Science |
Best Practice-Based Paper | ||
| Blended, Interactive Learning and The Ratio Table | Philip Southey | Faculty of Science |
Delegate's Choice | ||
| A Prison-University Educational Partnership: Rehumanising Learning through Collaborative Course Design | Mary Nel | Faculty of Law |
Award Name | ||
| Gamification For the Win!... or not? Evaluating Student Perceptions | Barnard, M., Adams, S. & du Preez, R | Faculty |
Best Practice-Based Paper | ||
| Unique ways to enhance critical thinking in Physiology undergraduate classes | Faadiel Essop | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences |
Award Name | ||
| Concepts in context | Philip Southey | Faculty of Science |
Previous SoTL Conference Prizewinners
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