Leading SoTL researchers.
Connect with leading scholars who are driving innovation and excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in TELIT and at NWU and beyond.
Impact of SoTL on your teaching.
See how engaging in SoTL strengthens your teaching, advances your career, and positively impacts your students.
Principles of SoTL.
Explore the core principles that guide effective SoTL practice and help you turn teaching challenges into research opportunities.
If you are interested in doing SoTL research, you can contact Prof Clarise Mostert (PC), Prof Martin Chanza (MC) or Prof Liandi van den Berg (VC) via email.
Prof Clarise Mostert
Prof Martin Chanza
In FEMS, SoTL aims to:
- contribute to increasing research outputs for the individuals, entity and institution.
- improve the quality of teaching and learning.
- encourage academics to reflect on their practices through research.
- Supports and strengthens the NWU TEA participants’ portfolios
The impact of SoTL on your teaching and learning includes:
- Good Teaching (teaching that promotes student learning and other related student outcomes).
- Scholarly Teaching (Teaching that is supported by a body of research to increase effectiveness)
- Combining reflection and knowledge yields answers to questions about teaching and learning challenges in classrooms
Principles of SoTL include
- Inquiry focused on student learning.
- Grounded in context
- Conducted in partnership with students
- Methodologically sound
- Appropriately public
Felten (2013)
