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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): Publishing & Sharing SoTL Work

This curated guide provides resources and tools to help SAIT faculty explore, design, and share research on teaching and learning

Why Share your Work?

Sharing your work is a critical component of the research process for any discipline, including SoTL, that validates your work but also ensures it reaches those who can apply it. Publishing practical and theoretical findings contributes to scholarly teaching - the practice of applying evidence-based teaching strategies informed by current research on learning and pedagogy. 

But publishing is not limited to peer-reviewed research articles. Beyond journals is a rich landscape of formats and modalities that welcome contributions from both practitioners and researchers. This page provides practical guidance and links to platforms that reflect a broad spectrum of opportunities for sharing.

Tips for Finding and Choosing a Platform
  • Consider your audience: who are you trying to reach and what are the outlets that speak to them?
  • Sign-up for listservs and newsletters in the discipline you teach, where calls for papers and presentations are often shared.
  • Use the Library's Journal Finder to browse or search publications that SAIT provides access to or use the OpenAlex catalogue that provides an open, searchable index of academic sources.
  • Explore the content, tone, and structure of the platform to understand if and how your work would fit. Consider types of articles or modalities (such as posters, audiovisual content, and other multimedia), focus (e.g. academic, professional, or educational), and factors like publication frequency.
  • Evaluate the platform to ensure that it's a legitimate outlet and not a predatory publication or conference (see the Think.Check.Submit and Attend links below for information and guidance).
Tips for Submitting to Platforms
  • Read and follow the submission guidelines closely, noting if there's requirements such as a pitch or proposal, word count, or citation style.
  • Consider choosing platforms that provide options for open licensing, such as Creative Commons.
  • If applicable, review the publisher agreement carefully to check if you can retain rights to share or archive your work on personal or networking websites, with students, or in institutional or disciplinary repositories.

Sharing Your Work - Journals, Conferences, and Other Platforms

There are hundreds of journals dedicated to publishing SoTL research and theory, or that intersect with SoTL with a disciplinary focus. Below are selected platforms that have an applied or practical focus aligned with polytechnic and undergraduate-level teaching and learning. See the Key SoTL Journals and Disciplinary SoTL Journals listed in this guide for additional publications, or reach out to your School Librarian or the Research & Instruction Librarian for support with finding the most suitable platform for your work.

Trade journals and magazines are publications aimed at professionals in a specific industry, featuring practical articles, trends, case studies, and news that help readers stay informed and apply insights directly to their work. Below are educational trade platforms that focus on various aspects of postsecondary teaching and learning.

Academic and professional conferences provide opportunities for sharing research, innovations, and best practices with your peers. These events feature a variety of content formats, and typically include presentations of various lengths, panel discussions, workshops, posters, and keynote addresses, allowing participants to present findings, receive feedback, and engage in networking. Below is a selection of conferences for SoTL run by organizations in both Canada and the United States.

Writing & Publishing Resources

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