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FLC (2015-2016): Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering several FLCs during the 2015-16 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 10-12 times (about every 2-3 weeks) during the Academic Year (Aug 17-May 16), as well as to read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.


Registration is closed for 2015-16.

Facilitator: Dr. Karen McComas, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (mccomas@marshall.edu)

The scholarship of teaching movement encourages teachers to approach challenging questions concerning their teaching with the same critical intellectual energy that they use when conducting their disciplinary research (Savory, Burnett, & Goodburn, 2007, p. 3).

Scholarly teaching refers to the intellectual tasks associated with the work of teaching, such as designing courses, facilitating classroom discussions, writing outcomes and syllabi, or evaluating programs. To subject that work to inquiry is the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Members of this FLC will develop a body of scholarship which is “public, susceptible to critical review and evaluation, and accessible for exchange and use by other members of one’s community” (Schulman, 1998). Specifically, members (individual or collaborative researchers) will formulate an inquiry question, design a way to assess the focus of that question, evaluate the results and draw conclusions, and disseminate findings of their inquiry. NOTE: Membership in this faculty learning community is for a period of two academic years.

SoTL FLC Schedule: January 27, February 10 & 24, March 9 & 30, April 13 & 27 (all 2:30-4:30 pm, CTL Commons)


Dotterer, R. L. (2002). Student-faculty collaborations, undergraduate research, and collaboration as an administrative model. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 90, 81-89.

Savory, P., Burnett, A. N., & Goodburn, A. (2007). Inquiry into the college classroom: A journey toward scholarly teaching. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc.