9: Moving From the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Educational Research: An Example From Engineering

In their 2005 book, The Advancement of Teaching, Huber and Hutchings state that the “scholarship of teaching and learning... is about producing knowledge that is available for others to use and build on.” (p.27). Can viewing the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as an educational research activity help to make SoTL findings more available to faculty and easier to build on? This chapter describes a year-long experience for engineering faculty that prepares them to conduct rigorous research in engineering