Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Resource Guide (Centre for Learning & Teaching)
This guide is a collection of resources related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in general and as it applies to specific disciplines.
Series of conferences hosted throughout the year. Conference participants are made up of faculty and administrators at various stages in their academic careers that come from across the world representing nearly every discipline found in higher education.
June. Focused on the latest research-based, classroom-tested best practices
Institutes & Learning Centres
Dalhousie Centre for Learning & TeachingThe Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) works in partnership with academic units, faculty members, and graduate students to enhance the practice and scholarship of learning and teaching at Dalhousie University. CLT takes an evidence-based approach to advocating for effective learning and teaching practices, curriculum planning, services to support the use of technology in education, and institutional policies and infrastructure to enhance the Dalhousie learning environment.
Council of 3M National FellowThe Council of 3M National Teaching Fellows is a community of award-winning teachers who are lifetime members of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), and a constituency within the STLHE. The Council shares the aims of the STLHE, advises the 3M National Teaching Fellowships Program Coordinator, and undertakes projects that enhance teaching and learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions.
The Critical Thinking CommunityThe Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fairminded critical thinking--thinking which embodies intellectual empathy, intellectual humility, intellectual perseverance, intellectual integrity and intellectual responsibility
Mount Royal Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching & LearningThe Mount Royal Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is a nexus for communication and collaboration, providing resources and coordinating initiatives locally, regionally, nationally; a community of scholars collaboratively advancing the existing body of knowledge about teaching and learning; a research centre facilitating and supporting investigation leading to deeper understanding of and sustained improvement in student learning.
Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning (Brown University)The Sheridan Center is a place where faculty, graduate students and postdocs come together from across the disciplines to inquire about, explore, and reflect upon teaching and learning as ongoing and collaborative processes. Our programs, services and resources are available to all members of the Brown community, including full-time and part-time faculty, postdoctoral fellows, teaching fellows, and teaching assistants.
Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning (University of Calgary)The Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning is dedicated to better understanding and improving student learning. It is both a building and a community that extends well beyond the building’s walls.
The Taylor Institute brings together teaching development, teaching and learning research, and undergraduate inquiry learning under one roof.
University of British Columbia Centre for Teaching, Learning, and TechnologyThe Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) focuses on professional development in teaching and learning, integration of technology into teaching and learning, development and delivery of distance education courses and programs and other technology-enhanced learning opportunities and, through the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL), scholarly approaches to curriculum and pedagogy.
University of Waterloo Centre for Teaching ExcellenceWaterloo is among the first universities in Canada to have instituted teaching development, inaugurating a centre in 1976. Reconfigured in 2007 to bring together support for classroom teaching, new technologies, and scholarly investigation, the CTE’s mission is to foster teaching and learning of the highest quality at Waterloo.
Western University Teaching Support CentreThe mission of the Teaching Support Centre is twofold. First, we foster and enhance best practices in teaching and learning at Western University, in partnership with Western Libraries, the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and Information Technology Services. Second, we advocate for teaching excellence and scholarship at Western, nationally, and internationally. If you are involved in teaching at Western University, we look forward to working with you! Come see us in the Centre in The D.B. Weldon Library.
