HomeBlogStudying EL Learning from SoTL “Failure”by Jessie L. MooreAugust 6, 2026 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Special Series First-Year Seminars Land Acknowledgement 60-Second SoTL – Episode 91 What can we learn from scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project failures to improve programmatic support for future SoTL inquiry? In this episode, Jessie shares an open-access article by a team of educational developers at Carnegie Mellon who reflected on project failures to learn how they could better support SoTL scholars working on technology-enhanced learning interventions: Hershock, Chad, Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Jacqueline Pincus, H. Elisabeth Ellington, and Zach Mineroff. 2026. “Unpacking SoTL ‘Failure’: Lessons from a Fellowship Program Investigating Generative AI’s Impacts.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 14. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.14.39 View a transcript of this episode. Show Credits This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric. 60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University. Music: “Cryptic” by AudioCoffee. Image in show art is by johnstocker on Magnific Related Resources Chick, Nancy L. 2014. “Methodologically Sound’ Under the ‘Big Tent’: An Ongoing Conversation.” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8 (2): 1. https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2014.080201. Chick, Nancy L., Laura Cruz, Jennifer C. Friberg, and Hillary H. Steiner. 2023. “Making Space for Failure in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Blueprint.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 11. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.11.36.. Studying Engaged Learning In addition to fostering investigations of high-impact practices and engaged learning and hosting multi-institutional research and practice-based initiatives, conferences, and seminars, the Center for Engaged Learning shares strategies for studying engaged learning. SoTL Inquiry Methods Your selection of inquiry methods should be guided by your research question and the research expertise you bring to your scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) work – or the research expertise you are willing to develop. Although your SoTL… Arts & Humanities and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning In August 2014 the Center for Engaged Learning hosted a think tank on Arts & Humanities and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Participants focused on examining what Arts & Humanities methodologies contribute to SoTL inquiry, but in the…
