The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic study of teaching and learning with a focus on improving student learning. It is an evidence-based process that enables use of various research methodologies with outcomes that can be applied to learning environments. This work focuses on conducting research, developing results for peer review, and publicly disseminating the research outcomes so others can learn from them and build upon them. ​

“the systematic study of teaching and learning, using established or validated criteria of scholarship to understand teaching can maximize, and or/develop a more accurate understanding of learning, resulting in products that are publicly shared for critique and use by an appropriate community” (Potter & Kustra, 2011).

 

“[T]he scholarship of teaching and learning encompasses a broad set of practices that engage teachers in looking closely and critically at student learning in order to improve their own courses and programs, and to share insights with other educators who can evaluate and build on their efforts.”

-Hutchings, Huber, and Ciccone (2011, p. xix)