60-Second SoTL – Episode 68

How do academics decide whether—and how—to engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, especially when time is limited and institutional reward structures still privilege disciplinary research? This episode highlights an open-access article that explores this question in the Global South—with implications for SoTL scholars around the world:

Bisschoff, Christo, Dane Coetzee, Jacobus Johannes Oosthuizen, Cornelia Schreck, Alretha Du Plessis, and Samantha Kahts-Kramer. 2025. “Navigating SoTL: Identity, Time, and Transformation in Academic Decision-Making.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South 9 (2): 126-45. https://doi.org/10.36615/h86dgy43.

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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 episode art is by Freepik.

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