Research Guides: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): Home

Other SoTL Sites to Explore

Vanderbilt's Center for Teaching SoTL Guide
Excellent resources for an introductory understanding of SoTL and how to get started
SoTL Resources from Illinois State University
Materials, Papers, Tutorials and Bibliographies of SoTL, many by Kathleen McKinney

Professional Organizations for SoTL

ISSOTL: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The goal of the Society is to foster inquiry and disseminate findings about what improves and articulates post-secondary learning and teaching.
POD: Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
"POD supports a network of nearly 1,800 members - faculty and teaching assistant developers, faculty, administrators, consultants, and others who perform roles that value teaching and learning in higher education."
CASTL: The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The sites in this collection include hand-built faculty teaching portfolios and scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that were created over a period of eight years.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center.

What is SoTL?

There are many definitions, but one that is widely quoted is from 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."

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