Pre-Conference Workshop 2

The second pre-conference workshop of RCSoTL 2025, titled “Implementing Teaching as Research (TAR),” was held on the 7th of May 2025 via Zoom. The session was facilitated by Dr. Thilini Rupasinghe, Adjunct Professor at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, United States. Drawing on her own TAR experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Rupasinghe presented a project that improved student engagement by introducing virtual office hours, illustrating how TAR can address real-world challenges in teaching and foster innovation through reflective and data-driven practices.

The workshop included individual and pair work designed to help participants identify researchable teaching problems and formulate clear project goals using a structured TAR planning document. This was attended by 89 academic staff members from six different faculties of the University of Kelaniya.