Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is inquiry on teaching and assessment practices and all aspects of student learning and engagement in post-secondary education. Faculty members and graduate students bring their disciplinary lenses to examine their approaches to teaching and assessment in their own courses for insights into how their practices are impacting their teaching and their students’ learning.

SoTL at the Centre

The Centre for Teaching and Learning offers a number of services and programs devoted to SoTL:

Research on Teaching and Learning Consultation Services are available for Western instructors, librarians, and archivists. Consultations are designed to help you move your research on teaching and learning project forward, regardless of where the project might be in your research process.,

The Research on Teaching and Learning Community of Practice is an opportunity for those interested in research on teaching and learning (RTL) to meet regularly with like minded colleagues from across campus to share their ideas, discuss RTL topics of interest, and learn from each other.

The Research on Teaching and Learning Workshop Series are workshops and/or presentations on aspects of the research on teaching and learning process, such as research design, ethics, data analysis, and making your research public.

The Research on Teaching and Learning Symposium showcases research on teaching and learning (RTL) projects being done here at Western; giving faculty members, librarians and archivists, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students the opportunity to learn more about RTL generally, hear about colleagues' projects, and ask questions.

The Western Institute for Research on Teaching and Learning is a three-day hands-on interactive workshop designed to support faculty in the development of all aspects of their research on teaching and learning \ projects.

SoTL Resources

Nancy L. Chick, Peter Felten, & Katarina Mårtensson (2025). The SoTL guide. (Re)orienting the scholarship of teaching and learning. Parlor Press.
https://doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa10

Mindi Summers, Brian Gilbert, Jaime Alvaro Paredes Paez, & Chene Redwood (n.d.). An introduction to the scholarship of teaching & learning (learning module). Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary.
https://taylorinstitute.ucalgary.ca/resources/module/scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning

Michelle Yeo, Janice Miller-Young, & Karen Manarin (2023). SoTL research methodologies: A guide to conceptualizing and conducting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Routledge.
https://ocul-uwo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UWO/f0kqif/alma991046100989405163

Questions?

For more information about all things SoTL or for help planning your own SoTL project, please contact Dr. Ken N. Meadows, Educational Researcher with the CTL and Managing Editor of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

References

Mary Taylor Huber & Pat Hutchings (2005). The advancement of learning: Building the teaching commons. Jossey-Bass.