The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation

Tierney, Anne

Abstract

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is being promoted as an activity for teaching-focused academics in the UK. However, support for SoTL is not a priority for most institutions, and formal provision for such support may not extend beyond the postgraduate certificate in higher education that is offered for new academic staff. This paper examines the experiences of SoTL of a group of twenty-one Life Sciences academics from a range of UK universities. It explores the role that SoTL has to play in developing classroom innovation in a structured and scholarly manner, and the consequences to both teaching staff and students, if SoTL is not supported as an academic activity throughout the careers of teaching-focused academics.

Citation

Tierney, A. (2016). The Role of SoTL in Classroom Innovation. In Conference Proceedings 2015

• Conference Name: Improving University Teaching
• Online Publication Date: Jan 9, 2016
• Publication Date: Jan 9, 2016
• Deposit Date: Feb 29, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 29, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Conference Proceedings 2015
• Keywords: faculty development; scholarship of teaching and learning; self-reflection
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9583
• Publisher URL: http://www.iutconference.com/2016/01/the-role-of-sotl-in-classroom-innovation/