The History of SoTL

• Video: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. “History of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.”
• Citation: Boyer, Ernest. “Chapter 2: Enlarging the Perspective.“ Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990.  15-25.

Key Characteristics of SoTL

• Video: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. “Key Characteristics of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.“
• Video: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. “Examples of SoTL Projects.“ Online video documentary.

A Taxonomy of SoTL Questions: What question do I want to answer?

• Video: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. “Taxonomy of Questions from Introduction to Opening Lines.“
• Citation: Hutchings, Pat.  ”Approaching the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.“ Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ed. Pat Hutchings. Menlo Park, CA:  Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2000.
• Tool:  Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. “Getting Started.”  
  

Evidence / Assessment – What kinds of evidence should I gather?

• Tool: Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. “Identifying Evidence.”  
  

Going Public

• Video: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. “Strategies for Going Public with SoTL.“
• Tool: Vanderbilt University. Center for Teaching. “Going Public.” 
  
• Guides: Find publications & conferences:
  • Vanderbilt’s LibGuide on SoTL
  • The CTE’s guide to conferences and journals.

SoTL in the Disciplines  – Further Reading (available on request through the CTE):

• Huber, Mary Taylor and Sherwyn P. Morreale, eds. Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 2002.
• McKinney, Kathleen, ed. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning In and Across the Disciplines. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
• Disciplines featured in these essay collections include:
  • history
  • English studies
  • communication studies
  • management sciences
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • mathematics
  • chemistry
  • engineering
  • political science
  • cross-disciplinary collaborations
  • inter- and multi-disciplinary courses
  • “the value of humanities SoTL”

General Resources

• Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.”
• Elon University Center for Engaged Learning. “Reading Recommendations for New SoTL Scholars.“ Online video documentary. YouTube. YouTube, 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 25 May 2014.

Doing SoTL at St. Edward’s:

• visit the SEU SoTL Circle website
• learn more about SEU’s Institutional Review Board
• your project may qualify for exempt status.  Find the “Request for exemption” form from the SEU IRB.