HomeStudying Engaged Learning SoTL vs. Scholarly Teaching Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionWhat is SoTL? SoTL vs. Scholarly Teaching Finding SoTL Research Students as Partners in Studying Engaged Learning Asking Inquiry Questions SoTL Inquiry Methods Arts & Humanities and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Publishing Research on Teaching and Learning SoTL & Promotions and Tenure How does the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning differ from Scholarly Teaching? The SoTL scholars we interviewed for our Scholarship of Teaching and Learning vs. Scholarly Teaching video (below) offer the following distinctions: Scholarly Teaching Consuming, using, and applying scholarship about teaching, learning, and disciplinary knowledgeConsulting the literature on teaching in your fieldConsulting other teachers in your field and/or teaching and learning centers at your institution Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Producing scholarship about teaching and learningAsking questions about student learning, and conducting systematic inquiry to answer themMaking that research visible to a community of practice (whether locally or through peer-reviewed publication)Seeking critical review of that research by othersProviding enough detail about that research to make it replicableLeading to – for the individual and the community of practice – scholarly teaching Of course, faculty can move between these two activities, sometimes focusing on being a scholarly teacher and at other times focusing on producing scholarship about teaching and learning. In the video below, Pat Hutchings advocates for thinking of both as part of a larger whole, with faculty bringing “habits of inquiry, questioning, evidence-gathering to their work as teachers.”
