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

SoTL in Various Disciplines

www.doit.gmu.edu/inventio/about_inventio.html

Inventio, an online journal once published semi-annually by George Mason University, features “peer-reviewed articles on instructional research, instructional philosophy, pedagogy, learning theory, and other significant issues related to excellence in learning and teaching” as well as shorter articles on classroom practice. Themed issues have included topics such as Technology Across the Curriculum and the SoTL of activism. Inventio is no longer active, but archived issues are still a valuable resource.
 
Gray, Kathleen, Rosemary Chang, and Alex Radloff. “Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Evaluation of a Scheme to Improve Teaching and Learning Through Action Research.” International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 19.1 (2007): 21-32.

This includes reports on Action Research in Teaching and Learning (ARTL) in STEM disciplines at a university in Australia. The five-year project included small competitive grants focusing on SoTL. Participants received funding for activities such as: attending training in research methodology, conducting a project with students and colleagues, working with a mentor on their project, and submitting an article for publication related to their project. Numerous benefits across disciplines resulted from ARTL—both in teaching and in scholarship. ARTL’s Web site is www.rmit.edu.au/set/ad/sotl/artl.

Huber, Mary Taylor, and Sherwyn Morreale. Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground. Washington, DC: The American Association for Higher Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2002.

Scholars from ten fields discuss the discourse about and inquiry into teaching and learning in their discipline, all hoping to promote additional reflection on and support of SoTL across disciplinary boundaries.

Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi. “The Scholarship of Teaching: Beyond the Anecdotal.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 2.3 (2002): 297-309.

This work discusses the problems with much of the talk and writing about teaching: because it relies on anecdote, it fails to exhibit many important features of scholarship. Salvatori provides thought-provoking examples of SoTL discussion from the vantage point of English Studies.