Join our Scholarship for Teaching & Learning (SoTL) hybrid community for shared support as you develop a research project. This community is open to anyone at Jefferson interested in teaching and learning – including faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students. To sign up, email Elif Gokbel, Instructional Design Specialist.

We’ll meet three times (January, March, and May) on Thursdays from 1-2 pm. You’ll learn the essential steps of SoTL research and share progress as you give and get feedback from others. By the end of the sessions, you will have created a comprehensive SoTL research study outline and gained resources and research support. You’ll learn the essential steps of SoTL research and develop a comprehensive SoTL research study online.

We will utilize the book Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide to the Process and How to Develop a Project from Start to Finish, written by Cathy Bishop-Clark and Beth Dietz-Uhler, as our guiding resource. We’ll provide participants with a copy of the book, but please sign up now to secure your copy.  

Email Elif Gokbel, Instructional Design Specialist, if you want to join this community.

Meeting Dates: Thursday, January 18, 2024, Thursday, March 14, and Thursday, May 9 (1-2pm).

Visit the Academic Commons website for more resources on SoTL, including self-paced modules, toolkits, and more.

The Academic Commons team was BUSY in the the 2022 – 2023 academic year! Check out our annual report to learn about what new programs and initiatives we took on in the last year. You can explore the website link or download our Annual Report PDF to find out who we are, what we do, and see examples of how we can help you achieve your teaching & learning, research, and communication goals.

Highlights of our year include:

• new student programming at the Gutman Library on the East Falls campus
• the launch of the Center City Archives & Special Collections (now called the Siegman Archives) expansion project in the Scott Library
• more open access publishing opportunities, saving Jefferson authors and the university money
• a new website to showcase the work of our AV, graphics, photography, and video production teams

Check out our Annual Report and explore our website to learn more about how we can help you.

Are you a patient, caregiver, clinician, administrator, employee, teacher or student in the Jefferson community or Jefferson neighborhoods who identifies with the LGBTQ+ community or its allies? We invite you to submit stories, poems, or essays for consideration. Everyone has a unique voice, and we want to hear from as many of you as possible. The deadline for submission is December 31, 2023. Cash prizes will be awarded!

All submissions to the Yeo Writing Prize also will be considered for publication in the next issue of Evanescent: A Journal of Literary Medicine.

See this flyer for details, and please share with others. Submit your story today!

We invite you to attend our virtual AI Basics series occurring every other month from September through May. Register for the next session now.

These sessions will address the most common themes from ongoing conversations, with an emphasis on AI as it relates to teaching and learning, recognizing that different programs have different needs. We would love your thoughts and input at any of the sessions you are able to attend. 

The next session is scheduled for Wednesday, November 29 from 10 – 11 am. All sessions will be facilitated on Zoom. Please view our flyer for more information about session topics and dates

Click a title to register for an AI Basics Session:
AI Basics: Dealing with AI (Wed. 11/29)
AI Basics: Embracing AI (Tues. 1/30)
AI Basics: AI as Support (Wed. 3/27)
AI Basics: Reflections & Lessons Learned (Th. 5/16)

Check out our 25 additions to our eBook collection this September. Topics range from hemp sustainability to emergency nursing and internet security. Explore the list of new eBooks below or browse the complete collection at Center City/Scott Library, Horsham/Dixon Library, or East Falls/Gutman Library.

Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance

The Architecture of Social Reform: Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism

Color Theory: A Critical Introduction

Community Real Estate Development: A History and How-To for Practitioners, Academics, and Students

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation  

Convergence: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing: Social, Economic, and Policy Impacts

Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Can Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

Design in Modern Life

Emergency Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum

Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI

Financing our Anthropocene: How Wall Street, Main Street and Central Banks Can Manage, Fund and Hedge our Global Commons

Handbook of Nonwovens

Hemp and Sustainability

Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development

My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human

Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

The Place of Glass in Building

Product Design and the Role of Representation: Foundations for Design Thinking in Practice

Reframing Assessment to Center Equity: Theories, Models, and Practices

Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theory, Practice, and Reception from Antiquity to the Present

Sustainable Approaches in Textiles and Fashion: Consumerism, Global Textiles and Supply Chain

Textiles of Medieval Iberia: Cloth and Clothing in a Multi-Cultural Context

The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse

Urban Regeneration and Real Estate Development: Turning Real Estate Assets into Engines for Sustainable Socio-Economic Progress

Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methods in Graphic Design

Jefferson’s Research as Art Competition celebrates all Jefferson faculty, students, and staff who have an eye for the beauty in their research or scholarship. Submit your images through Friday, October 6, for a chance to win a $250 gift card in each of two categories, and have your work featured in Jefferson research publications and online.

Categories include a) cellular and molecular, or life under the microscope and b) conceptual – renderings of research observations, experiences and concepts in various media.

Entries must be submitted via this form.

We’ve got a new look! Explore (and bookmark) the new Academic Commons website at academiccommons.jefferson.edu.  

The new design makes it easier to find what you need, whether learning about our services and helpful resources, registering for workshops, or completing self-paced learning in your own time.  

What’s New 

Workshop Calendar: Browse, filter, and register for workshops on instructional design and educational technologies, research tools, professional communications, and more. Sign up for our fall 2023 workshops today! 

 Consultation Form: Fill out the consultation form for help with instructional design and educational technologies or professional writing, publishing, and communication. 

Self-Paced Programs: Explore our growing library of self-paced learning modules on information literacy, universal design for learning, effective group assignments, and more.  

Our Services: Connect with our teams for help with audio-visual classroom support, website and database development, and more. View samples of our photography, videography, and graphic design projects to see how we can help you! 

Thomas Jefferson University Libraries: Quickly access the Jefferson Libraries websites by clicking the Thomas Jefferson University Libraries link in the upper-right corner, found throughout our website.

We hope our website helps you learn more about who we are, what we do, and how we can support you. Check it out now: academiccommons.jefferson.edu.