Annotated Bibliography in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Carnegie Publications on SOTL and the elibrary of articles The Carnegie Foundation has published several books devoted to SOTL issues, including Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Opening Lines. Find out more about these and other books and read the introductions to them at the Carnegie web site.

Pat Hutchings, "Approaching the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning", introduction from Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Pat Hutchings and Lee Schulman, "The Scholarship of Teaching: New Elaboration, New Dimensions," from Change

Mary Huber, "Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Reflections on the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning"

Mary Huber, "Developing Discourse Communities Around the Scholarship of Teaching"

Lee Schulman, "Taking Learning Seriously," from Change

SOTL tutorial from the AAHE an interactive web site illustrating various aspects of The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Questions from the Field Are you unsure what SOTL is? Find out some answers to your questions from the AAHE

Inventio: Creative Thinking about Learning and Teaching This journal has numerous articles on SOTL, but its first issue was especially devoted to broad issues in SOTL. See especially Randy Bass's article, "The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem?"

Classroom Assessment Techniques and Classroom Assessment Techniques Examples, excerpts from Angelo and Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers

The National Teaching and Learning Forum Features a Carnegie Chronicle section on SOTL

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning a tutorial from the University of Saskatchewan.

Australian Scholarship in Teaching Project

The Scholarship of Teaching, by Eileen Bender and Donald Gray, Indiana University, Bloomington

The Scholarship of Teaching, by Sandy Middleton, from Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Defining and Appraising Scholarship, from The Institute of Higher Education's Perspectives. Discusses recent attempts to define a scholarship of teaching as well as other attempts to define "scholarship"

Is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning New to Chemistry? by Dennis Jacobs and Brian Coppola, from Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning publication from Buffalo State describing their experiences in the Carnegie Campus Dialog program. Includes descriptions of and reflections on specific faculty projects

How Could I Do the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Selected Examples of the Different Genres of SOTL, by Craig Nelson, Indiana University, Bloomington. A brief bibliography.

Why Should You Publish Your Best Teaching Ideas? by Craig Nelson.

Action Research on the Web bibliography with hyperlinks

Action Research: A brief overview article by Judith K. Newman

Classroom Action Research Overview very brief description of action vs. formal research

Action Research from Queen's university; a wide array of resources

Higher Ed Movement Aims to Elevate Teaching: Will the 'scholarship of teaching and learning' drain research resources or step up teaching practices? by Tori DeAngelis. from the Monitor on Psychology

A Case Study in Scholarly Teaching article on Dan Bernstein and his SOTL work from the Monitor on Psychology

Review of Scholarship Assessed provides a brief summary of Huber, et. al. text

Review of Scholarship Reconsidered provides a brief summary of Boyer's seminal study

Illinois State University has developed a number of resources for faculty wishing to engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, including:

Conceptualizing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, by Deborah Genry, Illinois State University

Research Methods for Doing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, byKathleen McKinney

What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) in Higher Education? by Kathleen McKinney

Ethical Issues in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, by Kathleen McKinney

Examples of SOTl from Illinois State

Teaching Portfolio bibliography

For further information on assessment techniques one can employ in a SOTL project, you may want to explore the GC&SU CETL's Assessment page.

 

The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)

AAHE web center for campus dialog discussions and campus program clusters

 

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Knowledge Media Lab A collection of course portfolios by Carnegie Scholars and other useful resources

Portfolio Projects from the AAHE

Explorations in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning course course portfolio by Deborah Vess, GC&SU. Funded by a CASTL grant and sponsored by the Association of Integrative Studies.

Learning Interdisciplinarity: A course portfolio by Sherry Linkon, Youngstown State University. Funded by a CASTL grant and sponsored by the Association of Integrative Studies.

The Visible Knowledge Project Hosted by Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, several instructors from across the nation share their syllabi, resources, and outcomes of their courses. Primarily for American Studies.

Peer Review of Teaching Project housed at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

 

The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Indiana University, Bloomington

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education a journal of theory, research and practice

List of journals that publish SOTL from Buffalo State. See also this very detailed list of SOTL journals by discipline . In addition to the lengthy list of journals found at these two sites, see also Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, Issues in Integrative Studies, and Communication Education for other journals that accept SOTL research.

Kathleen McKinney, "Getting SOTL articles published" useful article from the Cross endowed chair of SOTL at Illinois State

List of resources for publishing SOTL in the various disciplines. Very comprehensive and useful list from Illinois State University

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

MountainRise: described by its editors as "an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Western Carolina University for the purpose of being an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)."

Inventio from George Mason University.  Publishes articles on a number of topics related to teaching and learning.

 

USG Board of Regents' Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Awards (formerly known as the Research in Undergraduate Education Award) has links to the portfolios of award recipients since 2001. Great models of SOTL research projects.

Georgia Conference on College and University Teaching held at Kennesaw State University

Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology

 

 

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