Where you can learn about additional scholarly projects

Opening Lines contains 8 case studies of approaches to individual projects by Carnegie Scholars. The seven bullets below form the outline of the narrative in each case study. Style and tone are similar to those in the video vignettes used in this tutorial.

Opening Lines may be a useful source for identifying issues of teaching and learning in one’s practice and framing them. Many faculty will be able to identify with the thoughts and experiences of the authors of these case studies. For faculty members who feel that they do their “thinking about teaching” in isolation within their departments or institutions, this publication may feel like a conversation with colleagues.

Framing the Question

- Context of the Project
- Gathering the Evidence
- Emergent Findings
- Conditions for doing SOTL
- Benefits of the Work
- Lessons Learned

Opening Lines comes with a CD containing a variety of tools and resources for scholarly projects. These include interviews (some as video clips), survey instruments, protocols, and reference sources. The publication showcases recent work in CASTL.