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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Teaching as Research

From our experiences as graduate students and faculty members, we often become well-versed in the research process within our disciplines. However, there are opportunities to conduct and share research on the teaching and learning that occurs in our classrooms. The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers workshops, consulting, and grants to support Virginia Tech faculty and instructors with their Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

SoTL Workshop Series

The primary purpose of this workshop series is to introduce participants to SoTL and to highlight the relevance of SoTL to their research agendas.

Teaching as Research: Building your scholarship of teaching and learning agenda

During the workshop participants will:

  1. review the basics and process of SoTL
  2. look at various examples and methods of SoTL work
  3. allow participants to start developing SoTL research questions

Teaching as Research: Building your scholarship of teaching and learning agenda

During the workshop participants will:

  1. refine teaching and learning research questions
  2. establish the data structures needed to answer the questions
  3. identify appropriate statistical tests to answer the research questions with the teaching and learning data available

*This workshop will be most useful for graduate students and faculty members with teaching and learning research questions in mind.

See our workshop schedule for dates and registration information.

SoTL Consultations

If you are thinking about beginning a SoTL project or have some questions about an existing project, you can make an appointment for a SoTL consultation with a staff member in our center. Request a consultation. A staff member will contact you to arrange a meeting.

SoTL Writer’s Retreat

Virginia Tech has faculty engaged in excellent teaching, but often the day-to-day workload as well as the demands of disciplinary research create barriers to SoTL publication. To support faculty engaged with scholarship of teaching and learning to publish in peer-reviewed journals, please explore the Faculty Affairs writing retreats.