| The goal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IS-SOTL) is to foster and disseminate inquiry on the factors that can best improve and articulate post-secondary learning and teaching and to encourage the application of the results broadly.
We recognize the importance of parallel efforts embedded in each discipline and scholarly society and of parallel efforts for earlier levels of education and will actively encourage their development.
We will actively encourage cross-disciplinary conversation to create synergy across disciplines that will both enrich the efforts within disciplines through new lines of inquiry and lead to insights and generalizations that can apply across many disciplines.
We are especially interested in expediting the flow of new findings and applications across national boundaries and in fostering collaboration among scholars in different countries.
Consistent with the longstanding mission of higher education, the scholarship of teaching and learning offers far-reaching possibilities for integrating discovery, learning and public engagement. The International Society has formed to further the emerging recognition of the scholarship of teaching and learning as a powerful and integral component of higher education's mission and identity and to advocate for support, review, recognition, and appropriate uses of scholarship of teaching and learning. |
