There is a vast body of scholarly literature devoted to teaching and learning as well as many opportunities to interact with fellow educators. A sample of links to a range of SoTL research outlets is provided below. These resources are useful in relation to teaching and learning practice as well as educational research.
Office for Learning and Teaching resources
The Office for Learning and Teaching's (OLT) mission is to promote and support change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching.
OLT Teaching Resources
Visit the OLT teaching resources site to access many excellent reports about issues and initiatives in higher education learning and teaching supported by the OLT.
OLT Good Practice Reports
The OLT supported an initiative to summarise relevant findings across various topics of SoTL research. These good practical guides offer a wealth of extremely valuable ideas and examples.
Office for Learning and Teaching
The Office for Learning and Teaching site is also well worth visiting for further opportunities and resources.
Higher Education journals & conferences
Victoria University and the Centre for Collaborative Learning and Teaching (CCLT) encourage educators to share their teaching and learning research and achievements with a wider community of scholars. Below is a wide range of SoTL outlets.
Higher education learning & teaching journals
There are many non-discipline specific tertiary learning and teaching journals. Below is a small sample. If you would like to explore further possibilities to publish your learning and teaching research, please contact the CCLT Educational Developer who liaises with your College.
- Active Learning in Higher Education
- Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
- Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
- Higher Education
- Higher Education Review
- Higher Education Research and Development
- Innovative Higher Education
- Innovations in Education and Teaching International
- The International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Journal of Further and Higher Education
- Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
- Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
- Studies in Higher Education
- Teaching in Higher Education
Higher education learning & teaching journals (discipline-specific)
There are many discipline specific tertiary learning and teaching journals. Below is a small sample. Most disciplines have an associated education journal.
- Advances in Accounting Education
- Medical Education
- International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine (see ‘Osteopathic Education’ subsection)
- Chemical Engineering Education
- e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching
- International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research
- Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
- Innovation in Education and Teaching International
- Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences
- Journal of College Science Teaching
- Journal of Computing in Higher Education
- Journal of Computing in Teacher Education
- Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work
- Journal of Teaching in International Business
- Journal of Teaching in Social Work
- The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
- Psychology Learning and Teaching
Higher Education Learning and Teaching Conferences
There are many conferences devoted to SoTL. Visit the the Conal site for a comprehensive list of global SoTL conferences. Below are a few SoTL conferences which are prominent in Australia.
Other higher education learning & teaching resources
A range of other SoTL resources can be equally useful depending on your purpose. Below is a list of blogs, databanks, email lists and organisations which commonly publish SoTL material.
Faculty Focus
Lots of excellent practical tips can be found at the Faculty Focus blog.
Tomorrow’s Professor
Tomorrow’s Professor is also fantastic sources of tips. If you subscribe, you can receive emails of tips twice a week.
The Carnegie Foundation
The Carnegie Foundation and its Resources/Academy collection is a good source of validated research by discipline scholars into curriculum design to improve learning.
JISC
JISC is a UK further education research group that has a wide range of university resources.
The Higher Education Academy (UK)
The Higher Education Academy (UK) is also a great source for teaching resources and education research They have an amazing range of free online journals that cover many professional areas.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
Another databank of materials that are (mostly) freely available is Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) , a US based collection. MERLOT is particularly useful because you can search by ‘type’ of learning materials, such as quizzes, assessment tools, animations and so on. Many of the materials have been peer-reviewed for their usefulness, so you have a sense of whether they ‘worked’ to help student learning.