b'STLI Sponsored ResearchSTLIteammemberspresentatnationalandinternational9conferences and publish in the teaching & learning field.This year, STLI Executive Director Adam Barger and Public Policy Professor Alexandra Joosse published an analysis on Building Cohesive Classroom Communities:Research shows that a cohesive classroom community.leads to a long list of positive student outcomes in higher education. This research seeks to better understand how to build cohesion in a classroom community, a goal that has become even more urgent given the student isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Scan the code to download the full article Other Research HighlightsSTLI team members attended and presented at a wide variety of conferences this year, including:POD Conference 2022: Mike Blum: Story School: Integrating MultimodalStorytelling into Undergraduate ClassesConference of Higher Education Pedagogy 2023: Adam Barger & Alexandra Joosse: Social Network Analysisfor Understanding and Building Cohesive ClassroomCommunities Mike Blum & Joan Gavaler: Connection Through Reflection:A Deceptively Simple Approach to LearningInternational Perspectives on University Teaching & Learning Conference 2023: Yujie Huang: Meeting the Challenges of TeachingPreparation for Doctoral Students and PostdoctoralFellows'