Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The SoTL generally refers to the process of generating meaningful knowledge, about an educational discipline, by validating claims through critical reflection (Boyer, 1990, 2015). It aims to enhance the “professional status of tertiary teaching” (Haigh, 2010, p. 1) by making transparent the means by which student learning has been enabled (Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin, & Prosser, 2000).
SoTL as scholarship needs to involve rigorous scholarly inquiry into student learning and thus into teaching as a key aspect of academic practice; that this needs to be made public; and that this process of making it public needs to be subject to peer review.
The Institute for Research in Open and Innovative Education (IROPINE) at the School of Open Learning of Hong Kong Metropolitan University supports HKMU staff for the pursuit of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) through promoting impactful research to advance teaching pedagogies and improve student learning. The Teaching and Learning Research Fund is one of the initiatives to nurture and support teaching and learning research in the University for the enhancement of the quality of our education provision.
The Teaching and Learning Research Fund aims to nurture and support teaching and learning research in the University. The Fund promotes the pursuit of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in the University and the enhancement of the quality of our teaching and learning through relevant research. The application form and guidance notes for this Teaching and Learning Research Fund can be downloaded through the following links:
Boyer, E. (1990).Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Boyer, E. (updated by D. Moser, T. C. Ream, & J. M. Braxton). (2015).Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Haigh, N. (2010).The scholarship of teaching and learning: A practical introduction and critique.Auckland, New Zealand: National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
Trigwell, K., Martin, E., Benjamin, J., & Prosser, M. (2000). Scholarship of teaching: A model. Higher Education Research and Development,19(2), 155–168.
