ABSTRACT
This chapter presents five illustrative examples of forms of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Like good research, SoTL relies on the use of a framework, model or theory to drive the directions of change, observation and interpretation. The four cases of SoTL describe the types of activities many university teachers do as part of their normal practice in attempts to improve their teaching and the learning of their students. University teachers could be engaged in all three levels. Level 1 investigations are occurring in most cases much of the time. Level 2 investigations, as in four cases, are undertaken to inform a group about their shared context, and results in the development of local knowledge. Fifth case is an example of a Level 3 investigation. While it was designed to produce new international higher education knowledge it was also designed to produce knowledge that was useful in informing a local teaching/learning context (Level 2).
