Getting Started with SoTL

Any successful scholarly initiative depends largely upon identifying and asking the most significant questions. SoTL at Quinnipiac might begin with any of the following purposive questions:

• What are the features of good student learning and how can such learning be best encouraged, improved and evaluated?
• What are the characteristics of an academic community that are conducive to student learning being central?
• What is the relation between the teaching of faculty and the learning of students and how can they best be fully connected and integrated?
• How can a scholarly focus upon teaching & learning improve student learning?
• How can the inherent desire and talent of faculty to acquire and create knowledge be directed to the central mission of teaching and working with students?
• How can a holistic approach to student learning where Student Affairs (and other units) collaborate with faculty be best achieved?
• What vision, mission, structures, procedures, and support can be developed to deeply engage the administration, staff and faculty (and students) in the idea, plans and practices of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning so that teaching and learning are the center of faculty conversation, research, publication and system rewards?