The “work in progress” in this “tree” is our tentative attempt to build a succinct framework for essential background in SOTL. Of course, the number of individuals, forums, articles, and books that have significantly contributed to SOTL is too enormous to include comprehensively.

We invite your peer review and critique of this module. At the end of the module, we will ask you (Task C) to tell us how you would modify the framework and which elements you would add or omit in each the first four categories above. We’ll consider your inputs and may incorporate them in future versions of this tutorial in order to build a better framework for everyone.