Dr. Laura Dumin has been experimenting with transformative learning (TL) tools and scholarship of teaching and learning methods (SoTL) in the classroom for over seven years. She finds that when students are engaged in the lessons, learning can happen organically, leading to more interesting class periods and longer-term gains in understanding concepts. Laura mixes her background in technical writing into all her courses, bringing ideas of audience and clear communication into assignments. When she is not teaching, she works as a co-managing editor for the Journal of Transformative Learning, is a campus SoTL mentor, directs the Technical Writing BA program and advises the Composition and Rhetoric MA program. She has also been exploring the impact of AI and large language models on writing classrooms and runs a Facebook learning community to allow instructors to learn from each other.
