60-Second SoTL – Episode 35

This week’s episode features an article from the open-access journal, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, and examines strategies for conducting a literature search for scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects:

Healey, Mick, and Ruth L. Healey. 2023. “Searching the Literature on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): An Academic Literacies Perspective: Part 1.” Teaching and Learning Inquiry 11. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.11.4.

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This episode was hosted 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.

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