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.

Read More about SoTL Literature Searches (Open Access Sources)

• Chick, Nancy L. 2016. “The SoTL Lit Review.” The SoTL Librarian. Last modified January 24, 2016. https://nancychick.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/the-sotl-lit-review-the-sotl-librarian/.
• Chick, Nancy L., Sophia Abbot, Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, Christopher P. Ostrowdun, and Krista Grensavitch. 2021. “Naming is Power: Citation Practices in SoTL.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 9 (2). https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.9.2.2.
• Chick, Nancy, Lorelli Nowell, and Bartlomiej Lenart. 2019. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Scoping Review Protocol.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 7 (2): 186–97. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.7.2.12.
• Healey, Mick, Kelly E. Matthews, and Alison Cook-Sather. 2020. Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres. Elon: Center for Engaged Learning Open-Access Books. https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/books/writing-about-learning/. [See especially chapter 14]

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• Expanding Our Bibliographies: BIPoC Scholars on Teaching and Learning, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Academic Development, & Higher Education
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