Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Faculty Fellows

Program Description

When faculty engage in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, they treat their own teaching as an area of scholarly inquiry. They add to a body of knowledge about teaching and learning and share their findings with the broader scholarly community. Faculty interested in becoming a SoTL Fellow propose to:

• develop and implement a teaching innovation.
• situate that innovation within existing scholarship on teaching and learning.
• share the results of the project with the office of Faculty Development and the broader College community.

SoTL Fellows typically make a small change in their course design or practice and provide an account of the results. Projects at the level of assignment design or some single intervention are welcome. The program is designed to encourage SLCC Faculty to engage in the cycle of making small changes, reflecting on the experience, and sharing the results.

Projects that meet the following criteria will be given priority:

• make contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
• innovate through experiments in course design, assignment design, or pedagogy.
• generate quantitative or qualitative data on student outcomes.

Finally, the office of Faculty Development views the SoTL Fellows program as a pathway to the Grant Development Fellows program, helping SLCC expand the pool of faculty who are prepared to pursue externally funded projects, and whose work contributes to student, institutional, and community success.

Award Information

$2,500 will be awarded per fellowship. The duration for each award is twelve months, with the program beginning and ending in April. Faculty Fellows will participate in:

• a cohort launch meeting at the end of April.
• monthly meetings to discuss research projects with faculty fellows.
• trainings with the office of Data Science and Analytics on how to complete an IRB and analyze data.
• a final presentation in April where faculty share the results of their SoTL projects with the SLCC community.

Eligibility Information

Full-time SLCC Faculty are invited to apply. Up to two faculty members may submit a collaborative proposal (as fellows). There is no limit to the number of faculty that may assist on each proposal (as non-fellows). Prior awardees can apply again but preference will be given to new awardees. This will not impact collaborative proposals.

Application & Deadline

If you would like support with your SoTL application please contact us at facultydevelopment@slcc.edu. We provide the book Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A guide to the process and how to develop a project from start to finish (Bishop-Clark & Dietz-Uhler, 2012). Copies are available in the Professional Development Center, TB225D, Taylorsville Campus, or via campus mail. There are many online resources explaining SoTL research projects such as SoTL at GMU. You may also view previous SLCC SoTL Faculty Fellows presentations below.