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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

This is a research guide designed to help faculty and staff learn about SoTL, where they can publish or present on SoTL projects, and other resources.

What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning?

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Lee Shulman, President) defines SoTL as:

"Scholarly teaching is what every one of us should be engaged in every day that we are in a classroom, in our office with students, tutoring, lecturing, conducting discussions, all the roles we play pedagogically.... But it is only when we step back and reflect systematically on the teaching we have done, in a form that can be publicly reviewed and built upon by our peers, that we have moved from scholarly teaching to the scholarship of teaching."

Another definition from the University of Central Florida's Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning:

"The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) uses discovery, reflection, and evidence-based methods to research effective teaching and student learning. These findings are peer reviewed and publicly disseminated in an ongoing cycle of systematic inquiry into classroom practices. This work benefits students and colleagues and is a source of personal renewal."

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