Resources: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

Carnegie Foundation /CASTL/ Leadership Clusters' Snapshots
Each Cluster (set of universities doing SoTL work) represents a group of institutions committed to collective design, documentation, and dissemination of work in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Here you will find a list of Cluster themes and Leaders, as well as links to "snapshots" created and maintained by each Cluster to provide additional information about their work".
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/highered/clusters.htm

The Research University Consortium for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Users can view SoTL publications and SOTL presentations. The resource section provides notes on publishing SoTL, various online teaching resources, and lists of SoTL books and journals. This website also offers an excellent SoTL tutorial covering a range of topics, including the what and why of SOTL, origin of SoTL, initiating SOTL programs, faculty SoTL projects, bridges to productivity, and questions, designs and methods.
http://www.indiana.edu/~sotl

Organizing to Foster the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This website offers a variety of SOTL resources including a disciplinary support for SOTL link, which allows users to view organizations and journals that support SOTL in a particular discipline. Users can also examine funding opportunites; publication outlets, and look at a group of SoTL faculty/staff who can provide expertise/experience in a variey of SoTL areas.
http://www.cat.ilstu.edu/sotl/index.shtml

Sustaining the Student Voice in a Campus-Wide Learning Community
This site provides an overview of SoTL and describes the importance of sustaining the student voice in SoTL projects. Student/faculty projects are also highlighted.
http://www.wwu.edu/depts/tla/

Visible Knowledge Project (VKP), Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University
The Visible Knowledge Project addresses issues in the scholarship of teaching and learning with technology. Besides highlighting some of its participants' projects, the site also provides a SoTL glossary and a resource kit for those wanting to undertake similar investigations.
http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/


Guest Lecturer

Dr. Renee A. Meyers is the Coordinator of the University of Wisconsin System Leadership Site for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and also is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.