At Strathclyde, we are committed to enabling all staff who teach and/or support learning to engage in scholarship, should they wish to do so. Scholarship in this context can involve a number of related activities; from reflection and inquiry on learning and teaching practices to developing strategies to enhance teaching and learning, curriculum development, promoting research-informed teaching, and facilitating student engagement in disciplinary research.
Perhaps the hallmark of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), as opposed to taking a scholarly approach to one’s teaching is that the work should be made public.
Going public with scholarship, has two key benefits. It makes scholarship, in whatever form it is disseminated, available for peer review and critique. And it contributes to an evidence-base that allows others to enhance their own practice by applying the approaches, rationale, insights and lessons learned in their own context.
Useful Pedagogy is a curated collection of easy-to-access, bite-sized scholarship outputs that can inspire and assist colleagues to enhance their approach(s) to teaching and learning while, at the same time, inviting colleagues to engage in discourse and debate around key topics in teaching and learning. Useful Pedagogy has evolved from Strathclyde’s Micro-CPD Mondays, which is a weekly CPD programme, exclusively for Strathclyde staff, that has been running successfully for a number of years.