SOTL can improve teaching and learning: SOTL has power to:

Unite Where Teaching and Pursuit of New Understanding are Shared Interests-

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Build Multidisciplinary Community-

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Capture the Wisdom of Practice-

Documentation of the deep and useful insights gained over time, the teaching moves and materials that every seasoned faculty member has found to work especially well so that others can use them is encouraged by SOTL

Foster Mentoring of New Generations of Teachers-

SOTL is a medium for the generativity that develops naturally in mid-life … seasoned teachers helping newer ones to learn to teach more effectively.

Employ Reserve Intellectual Capacity-

SOTL may increase the individual and collective scholarly productivity of the faculty, partly by providing an avenue to products from the immense investments that already go into teaching and partly by providing an area where faculty productivity can thrive when scholarly efforts in other areas are flagging or no longer interesting.

Recreate the Concept of Scholarly Excellence-

SOTL brings the spirit and standards of scholarly excellence to teaching .. standards that have traditionally been applied to other fields of scholarly endeavor but not to teaching.