Essential Reading Exercise 1

Using the internet, explore the concept of the “scholarship of teaching” until you are satisfied that you have a basic grasp of the concept. One way to test yourself on whether or not you have attained such a grasp is to prepare a twenty minute talk on the subject for newly appointed university academics.

You should find the following web-sites useful.

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) - What is it?
• http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sotl/whatissotl

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s e-library
• http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary

• The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Saskatchewan
• http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/drupal/?q=node/74

• The Australian Scholarship in Teaching Project
• http://www.clt.uts.edu.au/Scholarship/Home_Page.html

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Potential Publishing Outlets
• http://my.ilstu.edu/~sknaylor/sotl.htm

• International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/index.htm

• Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
• http://www.pestlhe.org.uk/index.php/pestlhe/index

• A Comprehensive Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Bibliography
• http://www.ltc.uvic.ca/documents/ComprehensiveSoTLBibliography_May_6.pdf

• Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and Scholarship Proceedings of the 30th HERDSA Annual Conference Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
• http://www.herdsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/conference/2007/papers/p233.pdf

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