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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of david gosling
Sent: 18 May 2009 12:17
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Subject: Re: developing SoTL post-PGCertHE

Anne,
There is a large literature both in this country and in the USA on promoting SoTL.

In D'Andrea and Gosling Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2005) published by SRHE/Open University Press, we devoted chapter 7 to this topic. I attach a bibliography that Mick Healey put together a while back that will point you in the right direction.
A recent paper Boshier, R. (2009), 'Why is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning such a hard sell?' Higher Education Research and Development, 28 (1), 1 - 15 discusses some of the problems involved.
Although the paper describes a north American context some of the points apply to the UK too.
The London SoTL conference has been running since 2001 as a vehicle to encourage staff engaged in SoTL to go public with their work, and of course other conferences provide similar opportunities.
On-line publications are increasingly being used.
Good luck with your efforts to promote SoTL.

David Gosling
Higher Education Consultant
Visiting Research Fellow
University of Plymouth
tel/fax: 0161 456 6148
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-----Original Message-----
From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anne Hole
Sent: 15 May 2009 09:10
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Subject: developing SoTL post-PGCertHE


Dear colleagues
We are thinking about how we can maintain and encourage colleagues'
engagement with scholarship and pedagogic research after they have
finished
their PGCertHE and would be very interested to hear what others are
doing
and what is working.
One idea we are considering is providing support from the Teaching and
Learning Development Unit to encourage colleagues to write short case
studies
on their practice which can then be shared through an online forum,
disseminated via our newsletter and perhaps presented at conferences or
published elsewhere.
I would very much like to hear from anyone who has tried something
similar or
another approach that has been effective.
thank you
Anne


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