Topic: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) — Associations, Conferences

"The American Educational Research Association (AERA), a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good."

"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching aims to build a field around the use of improvement science and networked improvement communities to solve longstanding inequities in educational outcomes."

CASTL represented a major initiative of the Carnegie Foundation. Launched in 1998, the program built on a conception of teaching as scholarly work proposed in the 1990 report, Scholarship Reconsidered, by former Carnegie Foundation President Ernest Boyer, and on the 1997 follow-up publication, Scholarship Assessed, by Charles Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, and Gene Maeroff.

The purposes of the International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning are to encourage the study of instruction and principles of learning.

The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Inc. serves faculty members, staff, and students who care about teaching and learning as serious intellectual work.

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.

Devoted to improving teaching and learning in higher education

A directory of a large number of conferences, general and discipline-specific,

A listing of teaching and learning conferences by Elon University updated each semester.

ISSOTL conferences convene faculty members, staff, and students from across the disciplines and around the world as a community that fosters inquiry and disseminates findings about what improves and articulates postsecondary learning and teaching.

"The conference showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today."

"a forum to share and model a scholarly approach to teaching and learning that reports quality student learning outcomes while promoting professional development of faculty"

Annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University,

hosted by the Georgia Southern University Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

"Devoted exclusively to the art and science of teaching." Includes a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning track.