A new series of videos features leading scholars addressing the place of the arts and humanities within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), scholars continue to debate methodological questions about how best to understand complex aspects of student learning in higher education (see, for example, McKinney 2013).
In 2014, Elon’s Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) hosted a think tank that brought influential SoTL scholars in the arts and humanities to campus to talk together about methodological questions. A 2015 special issue of the journal Teaching and Learning Inquiry will feature articles that emerged from this think tank.
A new series of CEL videos makes this scholarly work more widely accessible. These videos feature leading figures in the field including Sherry Linkon (Georgetown University), Nancy Chick (Vanderbilt University/University of Calgary), Brad Wuetherick (Dalhousie University), Susan Conkling (Boston University), Karen Manarin (Mount Royal University), Kathleen Perkins (Columbia College-Chicago), and Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon).
The video series has six parts, all available here:
- Arts & Humanities and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Arts & Humanities Methodologies for SoTL
- What Faculty in the Arts & Humanities Should Know about SoTL
- Arts & Humanities SoTL Example – Undergraduate Research
- Arts & Humanities SoTL Example – Complexity in Literary Texts
- Arts & Humanities SoTL Example – Increasing the Number of Women in Philosophy
To explore other CEL resources, visit the Center’s web site and CEL’s more extensive SoTL series hosted by Elon Learning on Demand.
Reference:
McKinney, K. (ed.). The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in and across the Disciplines. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.