Research Resources | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Seneca Polytechnic

Please share your favourite resources with us at sotl@senecapolytechnic.ca and we'll feature them here.

SoTL Book Recommendations

• The SoTL Guide - (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - free online book for download! 
• Why Don't Students Like School
• The Scientist in the Crib

SoTL General Resources

• “Your course outline is a hypothesis”, Randy Bass, Vice Provost for Education, Georgetown University.
• Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Guides

• A comprehensive guide on how to understand and do SoTL projects from the University of Calgary
• Vanderbilt Center for Teaching has a very useful guide on Understanding SoTL, edited by researcher Nancy Chick
• Explore the useful resources and conference listings over at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
• The Seneca Libraries Data and Statistics Guide provides an overview on how to get started with data

Journals and Knowledge Sharing

• Frontiers in Education 
• The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL) is a wonderful place to read about new topics that matter to Canadian teachers in higher education.
• Check out the Teaching & Learning Inquiry Journal explores new research in the field, and is a great starting point for new ideas.
• The Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden from OISE/UT (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto)

SoTL Research Ethics

• Fedoruk, L. (2017). Ethics in the scholarship of teaching and learning: Key principles and strategies for ethical practice. Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Guide Series. Calgary, AB: Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary. 
• A great, comprehensive SoTL Research Ethics Guide from York University, especially this section on Ethical Issues
• Healy, R, T. Bass, J. Caulfield, A. Hoffman, M.K. McGinn, J. Miller-Young, M. Haigh. 013). “Being Ethically Minded: Practising the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in an Ethical Manner.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal 1:2, 23-32.