Craig Nelson introduces the genres of SOTL

Different Genres of SOTL

-Reports on Particular Classes
-Reflections on Years of Teaching
-Larger Contexts/Comparisons
-Formal Research
-Meta-Analyses

Genres of SOTL overlap and can be combined or subdivided variously. The particular examples of scholarship for each genre are chosen to illustrate importance for improving teaching and learning and largely excerpted from Craig Nelson’s paper on genres:

"How could I do scholarship of teaching and learning (Microsoft Word document)?"

Two opening points:
1. Learning and teaching are complex activities where approximate, suggestive knowledge can be very helpful, and, indeed, may often be the only kind that is practical or possible

2. Much important expertise on teaching resides in the day to day practices of good faculty. Typically, this knowledge remains private and is totally lost when its possessor retires. A key task in this field is systematically making much more of this expertise public.