Getting Started with SoTL
IPFW's CASTL Committee
In October 2008 the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) made IPFW an affiliate institution, joining 47 campuses from across the United States and Canada. The Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs designated a five-member CASTL steering committee composed of faculty and staff to be responsible for planning activities and projects such as professional conferences, SoTL faculty learning communities, fellowships, grants, awards and other activities that support scholarly teaching and research on teaching and learning. The office of the Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and CELT provide resources for the work of the committee.
The committee members are:
Gail Rathbun, CELT Director and Committee Chair 481-6504
Michael Bendele, Psychology 481-6436
Linda Lolkus, Consumer and Family Science 481-6559
Carolyn Stumph, Economics 481-6475
Yvonne Zubovic, Mathematical Sciences 481-6037
CASTL poster for 2009 ISSOTL Conference
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's web site points you to important authors of the literature on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The site also provides examples and resources for instructors interested in the scholarship.
Faculty in many universities start down the road to SoTL by creating course portfolios. Compare the benchmark portfolio of Dana Fritz with her Inquiry Portfolio of the same course. See other examples of course portfolios at the Visible Knowledge Project at Georgetown University.
A guide is available for creating a course portfolio project based on Pat Hutchings' book, The Course Portfolio: How Faculty Can Examine Their Teaching to Advance Practice and Improve Student Learning, available in the CELT library.
Download the One Minute Portfolio Guide
Come to CELT (or browse the CELT library) for books on classroom research, course portfolios, and other SoTL topics.
Evaluation as a paradigm for research
The Office of Academic Affairs memorandum 03-2 entitled "Examples for Documenting and Evaluating Teaching" suggests a variety of data types and collection methods you can also use for your SoTL research.
Download Examples for Documenting and Evaluating Teaching
When you make a change in your teaching, build an evaluation scheme into your project at an early stage so that you will know ahead of time what pieces of data you will need and you can develop materials and strategies accordingly. Consider evaluating your own development process and your own learning too.
Download this Quick Guide to Methods for Evaluating the Impact of Teaching Innovation 
Protocols for Using Human Subjects in Research
IPFW faculty should apply through the Office of Research and External Support (ORES). If you use any student work, photos, recordings, or texts of any kind in a presentation or paper given outside the university, you must apply for approval to conduct research involving human subjects. Even if you are not sure that you will use the data, it's a good idea to apply anyway.
Purdue's Committee on the Use of Human Research Subjects requires investigators, key personnel, and graduate students involved in the use of human subjects to complete the CITI on-line tutorial to be certified as eligible to engage in human subject research. After taking the online training, read the full instructions for obtaining approval to conduct research involving human subjects.
Support for SoTL projects
The Mack Center, located at IUPUI, exists to stimulate inquiry in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, to recognize, honor, and increase the influence of that scholarly inquiry, and to foster change with the underlying goal of promoting excellence in education at Indiana University, in the United States, and internationally. The Mack Fellows' work is at the very core of the mission of Indiana University 's Mack Center for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Each year a group of fellows is selected from the full-time faculty of IU campuses to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Publishing your Research
Selected Library Resources on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning includes a listing of SoTL journals by subject area.
The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSOTL)
Originally published by IUSB, this journal was among the first publications of its type in 2001. The Journal provides a publication outlet for research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and an on-line forum for engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Professional Organizations
ISSOTL International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is an international organization headquartered in Bloomington, IN.
Scholarly and Professional Societies Register
Organizations on this list have teaching and learning forums and initiatives.
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