Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

This open access book published by Elon University, a leader in SoTL research, maps out what it looks like to be a SoTL scholar and how to get there by design. This book explores the possibilities for how educators at every stage of their career might engage in and maintain meaningful engagement with SoTL.

This open access book provides detailed guidance to scholars at all stages regarding how to write about SoTL for publication. It evokes established practices, recommends new ones, and challenges readers to expand notions of scholarship by describing reasons for publishing across a range of genres. Practical guidance is given to scholars in writing many genres—and in getting them published.

Created by the Taylor Institute at University of Calgary, this open access module series guides those new to SoTL research through opportunities to create a SoTL project and build an ethical framework for research.

This guide serves as an introduction to conducting SoTL research. The guide addresses topics from generating a SoTL research question to knowledge mobilization.

Aparna Halpe, (Centennial College), discusses her research on how studying poetry in the classroom affects the personal and professional goals of students.

Karen Manarin (Mount Royal University) shares her SoTL project featuring assignment redesign. Manarin shares how shifting an undergraduate research project from secondary to original research impacted her students' skill development.

Mary Snobelen (Centennial College) discusses her research project focused on e-Centennial’s course calendar, checklist, reminders, nudges and other resources to support student success. Discover what she learned about how students use them, and what it means for accessible learning in college.

The Higher Education Summit, hosted by Colleges Ontario, is an annual event that explores the top issues affecting post-secondary education today.

Provides space to engage, explore and expedite SoTL projects in various stages of completion ranging from ideas and inquiry to completion.

Present and explore research on the scholarship of teaching and learning in the Canadian context.

Fosters collaborative, interdisciplinary, and innovative scholarship in the area of higher education teaching and learning around the world.

Hosted annually by the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, this one day conference provides TMU faculty, instructors, graduate students, and staff the opportunity to present on their SoTL research.