Dobson wins Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
John Dobson, Ph.D., assistant professor with the School of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Health and Human Sciences, has received the Georgia Southern University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Award for his research on teaching and learning.
The award recognizes the body of SoTL work produced by recipients, with a special emphasis being placed on research that has been completed during the past three years. As a recipient of the SoTL award, Dobson has received a monetary award and has been invited to serve as a featured speaker at the annual SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah, Georgia.
"I am thrilled to have won the SoTL Award and to have an opportunity to present my work at the 2016 SoTL Commons meeting,” said Dobson. “My research focuses on a learning strategy that was developed by cognitive scientists and is called retrieval practice. In particular, I am interested in how I can use this learning strategy to enhance student learning in my kinesiology courses."
Dobson makes the third faculty member from the College of Health and Human Sciences to be awarded this honor since the award was created in 2009. The award recognizes Georgia Southern faculty members for their outstanding contributions to the SoTL. Each year a competitive selection process determines one awardee.
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