Resources on Teaching and Learning

Promising Practices

• Building Learning Trust (by Carmen Werder, 17 Sept 2009)
• Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching - a set of 16 guidelines on learning developed at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

SoTL Resources

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

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)

The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Indiana University)

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Georgia Southern University)

A Tutorial on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL website, developed by Indiana University Bloomington and Samuel Thompson)

What is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Higher Education? (Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State University)

The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem? (Randy Bass, Georgetown University)

Introduction: Approaching the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Pat Hutchings (2000) from Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Hutchings provides a useful taxonomy of questions to use in studying instructional practices.  See especially her discussion of how important it is not to overlook "What is?" questions that call for rich descriptions of what happens when we do X.