Almost every academician has heard the term “scholarship of teaching.” However, exchanges among colleagues from across North America reveal a heterogeneity of meanings, attitudes, and experience levels with this topic. A comprehensive and coherent framework seems needed to accommodate the many diverse strands of thought and endeavor. Similarly, a treatment of SOTL-related topics that accommodates a broad continuum of familiarity and experience seems needed.

The tutorial attempts to meet those needs, by providing a “primer” … a useful grounding in the whole domain of SOTL-related topics.
A group making the journey together along the continuum “from Alpha to Omega” will find interesting topics for discussion and rich resources for further study. The tutorial is well enough indexed to also serve encyclopedically for those who seek information about specific SOTL-related topics.

Materials for the tutorial originated in workshops and conferences sponsored by the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), the Lilly Conferences on College Teaching and various individual colleges and universities. This is a multimedia tutorial including photos, graphics, hyperlinks to sources, audio and video clips, and interactive tasks as well as text.

Your hosts: Samuel B. Thompson, Craig E. Nelson, and Rita C. Naremore

“The tutorial speaks to so many of the interests and concerns of faculty members and administrators who are grappling with issues of teaching, scholarly teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. You and your colleagues have done a tremendous job in organizing and presenting these materials.”

Barbara Cambridge