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Reviewed by Nancy Chick, University Chair in Teaching and Learning, Academic Director of the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, and Teaching Professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Calgary AB, CANADA

‘Methodologically Sound’ Under the ‘Big Tent’: An Ongoing Conversation

This essay synthesizes ongoing conversations as it explores the third and arguably most complicated of Peter Felten’s “Principles of Good Practice in SoTL,” “methodologically sound.

Theory and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Inquiry and Practice with Intention

Theory in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is the conceptual basis for the practice of SoTL—or, more precisely, the conceptual bases for the practices of SoTL—as well as the bodies of knowledge, methodological assumptions, and explanations of phenomena that are deployed (explicitly or implicitly) from a range of contexts within SoTL. Put another way, theory is thinking on a meta level, a metacognitive move in which practitioners become aware, critical, and intentional of how and why they are doing their practice. It involves taking stock of the existing conversations to move beyond definitions, to critically evaluate gaps and limitations, and to maintain forward momentum in the field

The Crossroads of SoTL and Signature Pedagogies

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and signature pedagogies invite librarians to delve deeply into student learning within the particular contexts for teaching and learning that are unique to librarians

In defense of microscopes

An introduction to volume 6, issue 1 of Teaching & Learning Inquiry

What does it mean to be an ‘international’ journal?: What is submitted to TLI is what shapes TLI

An introduction to volume 8, issue 1 of Teaching & Learning Inquiry

On the nature of expertise in SoTL

An introduction to volume 4, issue 2 of Teaching & Learning Inquiry

The necessary and dual conversations in a vibrant SoTL

An introduction to volume 2, issue 1 of Teaching & Learning Inquiry

Launching TLI: SoTL's purposes, processes, and people

An introduction to volume 1, issue 1 of Teaching & Learning Inquiry

From sound to substance

An introduction to volume 5, issue 1 of Teaching & Learning Inquiry