2025-2026 International Collaborative Writing Group
AI-Enabled SoTL Dissemination: Reflecting on Past Practices and Reimagining Future Pathways
Overview
International Collaborative Writing Groups (ICWGs) are a signature ISSOTL initiative that originated in 2011. Our 2025–2026 ICWG group explores how dissemination practices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) have evolved and how emerging AI technologies may shape them going forward. Situated within ISSOTL’s 20-year history, our work documents how knowledge sharing in SoTL has changed over time, critically examines current dissemination challenges, and investigates how AI tools might transform the ways we share teaching and learning scholarship. Our team brings together members from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. We began by meeting twice a month through early 2026 and then moved to monthly meetings..
Latest Updates
Our work has been accepted for presentation at the ISSOTL 2026 Conference in Saskatoon, Canada. The project is organized into two sub-groups working simultaneously toward a shared goal: creating a platform that elevates practitioner and expert perspectives while contributing to broader conversations about responsible and impactful AI integration in teaching and learning. Each sub-group will share its work at the conference:
Poster: “Navigating Tension in SoTL Dissemination: Mapping Traditional Benchmarks and Impact Metrics”.
Talk: “Amplifying Diverse Voices in AI and SoTL: Building a Global Knowledge-Sharing Platform”
Area of Action of First Group
Sub-Team: Emily Faulconer, PhD, Sophie Lefmann, PhD, Klaudja Caushi, PhD, Beth Arthur-Kuhn, PhD
Our first group is conducting a mixed methods scoping review, adapting PRISMA-ScR guidelines, that systematically maps the historical landscape of SoTL dissemination from 2005 to 2025. Using a Knowledge Translation lens, the review aims to establish an empirical baseline before generative AI reshapes the field. The protocol is registered on the Open Science Framework, and the search strategy was co-developed with an academic research librarian. The guiding research questions are:
- RQ1 (Channels): What have been the historically prevalent channels and platforms for disseminating SoTL findings?
- RQ2 (Metrics): What empirical metrics (e.g., citation count, download frequency) are most commonly employed in the literature to assess the effectiveness and scholarly impact of these traditional channels?
- RQ3 (Gaps and Stalls): What alternative measures of non-traditional engagement with SoTL findings exist (e.g., altmetric indicators, grey literature uptake such as blogs or institutional toolkits)?
Preliminary findings will be shared in our ISSOTL 2026 poster, “Navigating Tensions in SoTL Dissemination: Mapping Traditional Benchmarks and Impact Metrics.”
Area of Action of Second Group
Sub-Team: Klaudja Caushi, PhD, Wei Yan, PhD, Melinda Lewis, PhD, Lisa Abrams, PhD
Our second group is developing a website that showcases diverse voices at the intersection of AI and SoTL, as well as AI in teaching and learning more broadly. To date, we have interviewed prominent scholars and practitioners in SoTL and AI from multiple continents, along with experts in areas such as institutional review board processes, ethics review, and research governance related to AI in educational contexts. Blog posts based on these interviews will be published on this site.
This work will be shared in our ISSOTL 2026 talk, “Amplifying Diverse Voices in AI and SoTL: Building a Global Knowledge-Sharing Platform.”