Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

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Module Overview

As a coherent movement, SoTL has been around for at least three decades. Many individual teacher/scholars have embraced SoTL as a path to enhancing the learning experience of their students. Institutions have come to see SoTL work as an important part of their mission and mandate. This site provides an overview of the history of SoTL, varying definitions and attributes of the movement, arguments for why its pursuit is worthwhile, an introduction to relevant methodologies, and links to explanatory videos, the field’s major journals, and SoTL organizations.

This WordPress site [under construction] was created in 2022 when, Dr. Leeann Waddington (currently, KPU’s AVP pro tem for the Teaching and Learning Commons) requested a resource for faculty wanting information and resources on SoTL. My hope is that this site fosters communication, collaboration, and a community of practice around SoTL at KPU.

Cover image: Champlain College. (2021, July 30). Scholarship of teaching and learning. The Center For Learning & Teaching. https://clt.champlain.edu/scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning

Resource Outline

I. What is SoTL?

1. Defining the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning?

2. A Brief History of SoTL

3. Moving Teaching from a Solitary Activity to a Community Property

4.Why is SoTL Important?

5. Scholarly Teaching vs the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

II. How to Do SoTL

6. What Research Methodologies does SoTL use?

7. Conducting a Literature Review

III. SoTL Resources

8. SoTL Conferences

9. SoTL Journals

10. SoTL Organizations

IV. References