Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2007

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2007) 25

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0025.010

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Educational development traditionally has been a practice-based field. We propose that as a profession we adopt the methods of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), so often shared with our clients, in order to look through a scholarly lens at the outcomes of our own practice. Using SoTL approaches in our work would deepen the research literature in our field and improve the effectiveness of decisions we make about where to spend limited time and resources. In this chapter, we explore what it might mean for individual developers, and for our professional community, to apply SoTL methods to our practice.

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