Making Space for Failure in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Blueprint

In this essay, we offer a typology of failure in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to serve as the foundation for a new line of inquiry to be featured in this new section of Teaching & Learning Inquiry — SoTL in Process. Through the typology, we advocate for making space to talk about failure and its many forms in SoTL. Read the corresponding ISSOTL blog post here

2-Acetyl­pyridinium bromanilate

In the crystal of the title mol­ecular salt (systematic name: 2-acetyl­pyridinium 2,5-dibromo-4-hydr­oxy-3,6-dioxocyclo­hexa-1,4-dienolate), C7H8NO+·C6HBr2O4 −, centrosymmetric rings consisting of two cations and two anions are formed, with the components linked by alternating O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Short O⋯Br contacts [3.243 (2) and 3.359 (2) Å] may help to consolidate the packing

Translating SoTL for the Public: Thoughts on Why and How

SoTL practitioners interested in extending the impact of SoTL work have called for scholars to purposefully share their work beyond their traditional scholarly audiences. This more “public” form of scholarship allows SoTL scholars to translate their work to demonstrate its value to those beyond the SoTL or higher education communities. This presentation will focus on SoTL as public scholarship to extend the relevance of the field. Presenters will share examples of public scholarship across several of disciplines, including SoTL, and task small groups with brainstorming additional possibilities for this type of SoTL that extends its original notions of “going public.

SoTL 101: Approaches to designing your SoTL project

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SotL 101: Approaches to designing your SoTL project

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ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES OF MoAlOy−_{y }^{-} (yy = 1 −- 4) DETERMINED BY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND DFT CALCULATIONS

Author Institution: Dept. of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405Vibrationally-resolved photoelectron spectra of MoAlO$_{y}^{-}$ ($y$ = 1 $-$ 4) are presented and analyzed within the context of Density Functional Theory computational results. The structures reflect the relative stability of the Mo${-}$O versus Al${-}$O bond, with the Mo center in a higher oxidation state than Al. The highest occupied and partially occupied orbitals in the anions and neutrals can be described as Mo atomic-like orbitals, so while the Mo center is in a higher oxidation state, the most energetically accessible electrons are localized on the molybdenum center

Probing alkenoxy radical electronic structure using anion PEI spectroscopy

Photoelectron imaging spectra of three alkenoxide radical anions (3-buten-1-oxide, 3-buten-2-oxide, and 2-propenoxide) are presented and analyzed with supporting results of density functional theory calculations. In all spectra, intense detachment features are observed at approximately 2 eV electron binding energy, which is similar to the electron affinities of saturated neutral alkoxy radicals [Ramond et al., J. Chem. Phys. 112, 1158 (2000)]. Photoelectron angular distributions suggest the presence of several overlapping transitions which are assigned to the X̃ and à states of multiple energetically competitive conformers. The term energy of the à state of the 2-propenoxy radical, 0.17 eV, is higher than that of 3-buten-2-oxy (0.13 eV) and 3-buten-1-oxy (0.05 eV) radicals. Comparing the butenoxy radicals, we infer that stronger interactions between the non-bonding O 2p orbitals and the π bond increase the splitting between the ground and the first excited state in the 3-buten-2-oxy radical relative to the 3-buten-1-oxy radical