Overview

Professors tend to think of their specific discipline when identifying research and scholarship projects. Yet, professors spend a lot of time in a "laboratory" that offers many opportunities for research, scholarship and application. That laboratory is for the classroom and the students. When professors treat teaching as thoughtful trial and error, they can better see the research opportunities. What teaching and learning techniques work best and why? What types of evidence can be collected from the classroom? Such research, particularly when also shared and discussed with peers, can help faculty derive new and revised approaches to their teaching and learning work to help students have the best learning opportunities.

Resources

• Center for Faculty Development support faculty in the development of scholarly contributions and professional services. The Center also has books available to borrow on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
• Book excerpt - Surveying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2005) by Mary Taylor Huber and Pat Hutchings ; Chapter 1 - The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons
• Boyer , Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. (1990 & 1997)
• Glassick, Huber, Maeroff, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. (1997)
• Integrative Learning