HomeBlogStudying EL Supporting SoTL through a Regional Community of Practiceby Jessie L. MooreMay 18, 2023 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Land Acknowledgement 60-Second SoTL – Episode 34 This week’s episode features an open-access article from the International Journal for Academic Development and examines the impact of a regional community of practice for academic developers supporting scholarship of teaching and learning at their home institutions: Lukes, Laura A., Sophia Abbot, Dayna Henry, Melissa Wells, Liesl Baum, Kim Case, Edward J. Brantmeier, and Lindsay Wheeler. 2023. “Impact of a Regional Community of Practice for Academic Developers Engaged in Institution-Level Support for SoTL.” International Journal for Academic Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2022.2135005 See a transcript of this episode. 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 Communities of Practice Goodnough, Karen, Christine Arnold, Saiqa Azam, Kimberly Maich, Alireza Moghaddam, Sharon Penney, and Gabrielle Young. 2020. “Cultivating a Self-Study Community of Practice: Reflections of Faculty on Issues of Evolution and Functioning.” Studying Teacher Education 16 (2): 145–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/17425964.2020.1737928 Meacham, Mark, Maggie Castor, and Peter Felten. 2013. “Partners as Newcomers: Mixed-role Partnerships as Communities of Practice.” Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education 1 (10): 1–11. https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss10/5 [Open Access] Explore the Center’s Resources on SoTL What is SoTL? The Scholarship of Teaching of Learning (SoTL) involves faculty (sometimes in partnership with their students) undertaking systematic inquiry about student learning – informed by prior scholarship on teaching and learning – and going public with the results. As Pat Hutchings notes (see our… SoTL vs. Scholarly Teaching 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,… Asking Inquiry Questions Inquiry questions in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) often fall into one of the categories in Pat Hutchings’ (2000) Taxonomy of Questions, although the taxonomy is not exhaustive. Hutchings identifies four types of questions (pp. 4-5): In the following video,… SoTL Inquiry Methods Your selection of inquiry methods should be guided by your research question and the research expertise you bring to your scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) work – or the research expertise you are willing to develop. Although your SoTL… Publishing Research on Teaching and Learning The Center’s research seminars and scholar programs often lead to significant publication outcomes (in addition to informing practices on participants’ home campuses), so we routinely update this page to support our participants’ writing goals and those of other SoTL scholars….
