Laurie Richlin’s conceptualization reflects her extensive experience as co-director of the Lilly Conferences on College Teaching and in helping faculty with teaching-related investigations.Her conceptualization shown in the slide is closely tied to the ideas of classroom research.

She partitions a developmental process for SOTL according to the aspects that can be considered scholarly teaching and scholarship of teaching. Her steps in the part of the process called scholarly teaching are similar to the classroom research schematic. (Unit 3 A, Page 13)