Getting Started
If you are new to educational scholarship, this section can help you take your first steps. We outline the core stages of the scholarly process—from identifying a question to sharing your findings—and offer guidance tailored to the Queen’s context.
Guides, Modules, and Toolkits
These concise, practical resources support each stage of the scholarly process. Find tools for designing research questions, conducting literature reviews, selecting methods, collecting data, and engaging in analysis and interpretation.
Journals, Databases, and Reading Lists
Access curated lists of journals, scholarly databases, and reading resources relevant to educational scholarship and research. We highlight Queen’s strengths, including health professions education, Indigenous scholarship, and curriculum design.
Explore foundational frameworks in educational scholarship, including SoTL principles, mixed-methods approaches, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and models that guide research and evaluation. We also highlight frameworks integral to Queen’s, including Universal Design for Learning, Indigenization, and interprofessional collaboration.
- Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Carnegie Foundation.
- Felten, P. (2013). Principles of Good Practice in SoTL. Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 1(1), 121-125
- Kolomitro, K., Laverty, C., & Stockley, D. (2018). Sparking SoTL: Triggers and stories from one institution. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9(2).
- Miller-Young, J., & Yeo, M. (2015). Conceptualizing and communicating SoTL: A framework for the field. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 3(2), 37-53. doi:10.2979/teachlearninqu.3.2.37
- Yeo, M. (2023). SoTL Research Methodologies: A Guide to Conceptualizing and Conducting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Taylor and Francis
The CJSoTL is an official journal of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). It is an open access online journal dedicated to publishing quality peer-reviewed articles and essays in French and English that address teaching and learning interests of universities and colleges across Canada.
Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL)
Teaching & Learning Inquiry is the open access journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). TLI publishes peer-reviewed scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research in higher education across disciplinary, institutional, and geographical contexts.
Imagining SoTL (IS), an open access publication, stems from the annual Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), hosted by Mount Royal University’s Mokakiiks Centre for SoTL.
The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) is a forum for the dissemination of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in higher education for the community of teacher-scholars.
Transformative Dialogues (TD) is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of teaching and learning in post-secondary education. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary intellectual debate and inquiry, exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
SoTL Reading List
Mount Royal University
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is supported by a well-established and continually evolving literature that examines teaching and learning as a field of rigorous scholarly inquiry. The books and peer-reviewed journal articles highlighted here represent foundational and emerging contributions that inform SoTL theory, methodology, and practice.
SoTL Reading List – Mount Royal
Teaching and Learning Research and Scholarship
Taylor Institute (University of Calgary)
A resource library for SoTL research including qualitative studies, ethics, designing a SoTL project, data collection & analysis, and making sense of partnership in SoTL research.
TCPS 2: CORE – 2022
(Course on Research Ethics)
Online tutorial on research ethics with a focus on the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2). Whether you need a refresher or have not started yet on your ethics journey, this course is a great place to start. The CORE-2022 Certificate of Completion is possible by scoring at least 80% on final quiz after completing all nine modules.
Ethics in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Guide
(Taylor Institute)
This Taylor Institute Guide takes the researcher through the essentials of the Canadian standards for ethical practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Because of the unique challenges of SoTL, where the human participants that are the subject of the research are also typically the researcher’s students, this guide translates the comprehensive TCPS2 (2014) for the researcher conducting SoTL research.
Dissemination and Knowledge Mobilization
Learn strategies for sharing your work through publications, conference presentations, and knowledge mobilization activities. We provide guidance on writing for publication, preparing posters and presentations, and reaching different audiences.
Annual conference focused on SoTL that brings together scholars internationally.
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference
Annual event hosted by Mount Royal University’s Mokakiiks Centre for SoTL to brings together educators, researchers, and academic leaders to share evidence-based research, exchange innovative practices, and engage in critical dialogue about teaching and learning in higher education. This is a signature gathering of the scholarship of teaching and learning community in beautiful Banff, Alberta.
Annual event for conference presentations with a separate SoTL stream for presentations.
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Conference
Now in its fourth year, the SoTL Shine Hack-a-Thon has become a signature experience at the Jane and Ron Graham Centre for SoTL. This intensive, community-powered workshop invites educators, graduate students, and research partners to bring a SoTL idea—at any stage of development—and transform it through collaborative “hacking.”
External Resources and Partners
We link to national and international networks, SoTL centres, and organizations that support and advance educational scholarship. These partners expand the community of practice beyond Queen’s.
Networks
- Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education/ La société pour l’avancement de la pédagogie dans l’enseignment supérieur (STLHE/SAPES)
- SoTL Canada (a constituency of STLHE)
- International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)
- Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
- Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education
External SoTL Centres
- Mokakiiks Centre for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning – Mount Royal University
- Jane and Ron Graham Centre for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – University of Saskatchewan