HomePublicationsOpen Access SeriesThe SoTL Guide About the Authors Book MenuThe SoTL Guide ChaptersIntroductionChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12About the Authors Book Resources Reviews Download BookOpen Access PDFdoi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa10ISBN: 978-1-64317-568-3November 3, 20257.2 MBMetrics: 3610 views | 691 downloadsBuy in PrintISBN: 978-1-64317-567-6EPUB ISBN: 978-1-64317-569-0 Nancy L. Chick Nancy Chick is a SoTL scholar, scholarly teacher, and faculty developer. In 2011, she left full-time faculty work as an English professor to focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and faculty development first at Vanderbilt University, the University of Calgary, Rollins College, and now Texas Woman’s University, where she is the Executive Director of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship and Professor of English. Nancy has taught undergraduate courses on American literature, women’s and gender studies, and how learning works in higher education, as well as graduate courses in literary pedagogy and feminist pedagogy. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on the results of SoTL projects and on the field of SoTL. (See her CV for a full list of publications.) Nancy also has an extensive editing background, serving as founding co-editor, with Gary Poole, of Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning/ISSOTL (2011-2020). In 2017, she was presented with an ISSOTL Distinguished Service Award, served on the ISSOTL Presidential team from 2019-22 and (with Chng Huang Hoon) as President in 2020-21, and was the Society’s inaugural Historian until 2024. Explore more of her work at nancychick.com. Peter Feltenpfelten@elon.eduPeter Felten is executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, professor of history, and assistant provost for teaching and learning at Elon University. He has published eight books about undergraduate education, including Connections are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) co-authored by Isis Artze-Vega, Leo Lambert, and Oscar Miranda Tapia—with an open access online version free to all readers. He is a former president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) and also of the POD Network, and is a former co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development. He currently is on the advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), is a fellow of the Gardner Institute, and writes the “books worth reading” column for Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. Katarina Mårtenssonkatarina.martensson@uvet.lu.seKatarina Mårtensson is professor of higher education and academic developer at Lund University in Sweden. Her work includes supporting educational, academic and organisational development through leading programmes on teaching and learning in higher education, scholarship of teaching and learning, and educational leadership. Her research focuses on the role of social networks, academics’ professional development, academic microcultures, and educational leadership. She has led a professional development initiative for educational (faculty) developers, called “Strategic Educational Development” in Sweden, Iceland, and Singapore. Katarina is a founding member of the EuroSoTL Network, past Co-President of the International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and previously a co-editor of its journal Teaching & Learning Inquiry. She has received the ISSOTL Distinguished Service Award (2019) and the Spirit of ICED Award (2025). Share: