Collaboration Resources for
College and University Teachers

SoTL
Annotated Bibliography

Introduction to SoTL, Expanding Definitions of Scholarship, Making Teaching Public, Campus-Wide Focus on Teaching and Learning, Engaging in Pedagogical Research, SoTL in Various Disciplines, SoTL as A Career Priority, Selected SoTL Journals

What is SoTL: Campus Wide Focus on Teaching and Learning

Getting started

           http://www.issotl.org/tutorial/sotltutorial/home.html  

From the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, this tutorial is designed to provide a “useful grounding in the whole domain of SoTL-related topics.” It's useful for individual faculty as well as for faculty wanting to learn about and implement SoTL together.

http://www4.uwm.edu/LeadershipSite/

The University of Wisconsin system SoTL site is  “designed to support and encourage research on teaching and learning.” The sire is useful for getting started with SoTL research and includes several FAQs and links to numerous SoTL web resources. Particularly helpful are the numerous SoTL articles and links to hundreds of potential publication outlets for SoTL research.

Cross, K. Patricia, and Mimi Harris Steadman. Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of  Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

Written to help create a “climate on campus for the serious discussion of teaching and learning” in which faculty engage in “collaborative problem-based discussions,” this work draws from both authors' teaching experience and from research and theory on learning. They have organized the book around four cases, each of which is meant to provoke discussion about common issues faced in teaching. Cases are accompanied by a “brief review of the recent relevant research on learning” as well as ideas for studying this learning issue through readers’ own classroom assessment and research. This is a great resource for faculty book groups for those just beginning to think about SoTL.

Huber, Mary Taylor, and Pat Hutchings. The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Huber and Hutchings define SoTL and considers its implications for academic culture, faculty careers, and the student experience. The book provides numerous examples from a range of disciplines and campus settings to explore the structures and policies necessary for supporting faculty engagement in SoTL.
 

Further Reading

            http://www.facet.iupui.edu  

This site is home to the Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an ongoing initiative to “promote and sustain teaching excellence” at IU as well as to promote “inquiry and engagement in teaching and learning” through colloquia and  publications. It contains useful resources as well as a helpful picture of an excellent and well-established SoTL program.

Atkinson, Maxine P. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Reconceptualizing Scholarship and Transforming the Academy.” Social Forces 79.4 (2001): 1217-1230.

While written particularly for those in sociology, it includes a very useful discussion of ways to define SoTL, as well as criteria for judging various products of scholarship that grow out of SoTL. Atkinson makes a strong case for valuing SoTL.

Cox, Milton D., and Laurie Richlin, ed. Building Faculty Learning Communities. New Directions for Teaching and Learning 97 (2004). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

The book explores the “history, development, implementation, and results of faculty learning communities across a wide variety of institutions and purposes.” The editors have included a rationale for faculty learning communities as well as practical suggestions for those wanting to implement faculty learning communities on their campus. Faculty learning communities can be vehicles for mutual learning and collaboration on numerous topics, including SoTL.

Levine, Laura, et al. “Teaching Ourselves: A Model to Improve, Assess, and Spread the Word.” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 1.2 (2007). (Also at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl)

The authors present a modest and workable plan for a small group of faculty who want to carry out an SoTL project together. This is useful for those wanting to get started in SoTL and to build collegiality through collaboration about teaching and learning.