The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) refers broadly to the systematic, evidence-based study of teaching practices and student learning, typically in higher education, with the goal of improving educational outcomes and sharing findings publicly so others can benefit. The analogy of a "big tent" is often used to describe the field’s inclusive and expansive nature.
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This guide was developed with contributions by and in consultation with an Educational Developer in SAIT's Teaching & Learning Commons (TLC). Visit the TLC website or reach out by email for expert advice and guidance on SoTL at SAIT.
SoTL in Action : illuminating critical moments of practice
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Sotl Research Methodologies
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Combining real examples with a roadmap of how to construct studies, analyze results, and share work, this book serves as a primary research methodology text for the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
Becoming a SoTL Scholar
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The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), a multidisciplinary field that focuses on systematic investigation in teaching and learning, is now over 30 years old. No longer just a grassroots movement of individual faculty committed to taking teaching and learning seriously, SoTL has become professionalized. Becoming SoTL Scholar maps out what it looks like to be a SoTL scholar and how to get there by design.Becoming a SoTL scholar involves reckoning with one's academic identity, since SoTL occupies a kind of "borderland" or liminal space outside of traditional disciplines. For faculty members who become interested in SoTL, this new space is typically disorienting at first, as the scholar grows from these initial moments to ultimately finding a place in the SoTL community. This book explores what happens after that phase, after one has come to embrace the identity of a SoTL scholar. It describes the traits that determine one's credibility and expertise as a SoTL scholar, and delves into the ongoing collaborations, research groups, and networks that form much of that necessary SoTL community. The book also explores the possibilities for students and early-career colleagues who choose SoTL as their primary career path. Additionally, at the other end of the spectrum, our book also addresses how mid- and later-career SoTL scholars might maintain meaningful engagement and make lasting contributions to the field.Ultimately, Becoming a SoTL Scholar illustrates the different entry points offered by SoTL and provide inspiring narratives, practical advice, and aspirational proposals for the different aspects of being a SoTL scholar.
Ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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This book addresses issues related to ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and pays special attention to ethical concerns and experiences that have arisen from engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work. The book draws on a range of research projects, theoretical frameworks and narrative experiences to provide multiple perspectives of how meaning is made of research ethics in SoTL, academic community and REB partnerships, experiences of Students as Partners in SoTL, and ethically-minded approaches to teaching, learning and inquiry. Specifically, this edited book includes ethical practices that have become increasingly expansive in an ever-evolving academic environment such as navigating pandemic pedagogy and data ownership due to increased online content. In addition, contributions pertaining to academic community partnerships between REBs and faculty detail realistic narratives and lessons learned about how higher education can become more equitable, diverse and inclusive. Subsequently, decolonial ethics for teaching and learning in higher education, as well as participatory parity, exemplify the need for SoTL practitioners to be responsive to the social and cultural realities of a global context in ways that address social inequities and social responsibility. Relational ethics by way of student perspectives on vulnerability and classroom-based SoTL research underscore the need for students to be taught about their own agency as a means of providing student voice within SoTL work. Lastly, this book celebrates how ethically-minded approaches to teaching, learning and inquiry uncover strategies and pedagogy that encourage concepts such as ethical imagination and systems and design thinking practices.
The Educational Turn
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This open access book explores how educational researchers working at the edges of innovations in languages and literacies, leadership, assessment, social and cultural transformation, and pedagogies rethink the educational turn in new sites. It engages with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) for educational researchers to redefine ways of knowing about learning post-COVID and deepen collective understanding of student learning and teaching for next practices to emerge. This book extends the theoretical and practical aspects of the educational turn across multiple contexts as SoTL. It is grounded in a field of practice and ways of knowing, outlining key intellectual principals, and set against specific examples from research. The chapters reference an understanding of the pedagogical implications of the 'educational turn', utilise a broad range of theory and concepts, and explore potential implications for education and next practices.
SoTL at the Macro and Mega Levels of the 4M Framework
Student Partners and SoTL