Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): Home

Keywords and Phrases

sotl OR "scholarship of teaching and learning"

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Search Google Scholar with the search string: sotl OR "scholarship of teaching and learning." 

Tip: try adding your discipline to the search box! For example: sotl OR "scholarship of teaching and learning" history.

ERIC Thesaurus

• college faculty
• college instruction
• educational change
• educational planning
• faculty development
• higher education
• learning
• learning processes
• postsecondary education as a field of study
• reflective teaching
• scholarship

Scholarship of teaching and learning as defined by Lee Shulman: 

"The scholarship of teaching and learning invites faculty...to view teaching as serious, intellectual work, ask good questions about their students' learning, seek evidence in their classrooms that can be used to improve practice, and make this work public so that others can critique it, build on it, and contribute to the wider teaching commons."  (Shulman, 2006, p. ix)

Hatch, Thomas, Melissa Eiler White, and Lee S. Shulman. Into the Classroom: Developing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Useful questions and concepts to consider as you develop project ideas:

From Hutchings, P. (Ed.). (2000). Opening lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Menlo Park, CA: Carnegie Publications.

• What works? / What is working?
  • Seeking evidence about the relative effectiveness of different approaches to increase student learning.
• What is? / What does it look like?
  • Describing features of learning and what is happening in the classroom.
• What would it look like? / Visions of the possible.
  • What could happen in the classroom?
• New conceptual frameworks
  • Build theories and shape thought about practice, leading to new inquiry questions.

From O’Brien, M. (2008). Navigating the SoTL landscape: A compass, map and some tools for getting started. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), 1-20. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol2/iss2/15/.

• What will my students learn and why is it worth learning?
• Who are my students and how do students effectively learn?
• What can I do to support students to learn effectively?
• How do I know if my teach and my students' learning has been effective?