Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research

Optimizing Teaching and Learning will serve as a practical guide for anyone, anywhere, who is interested in improving their teaching, the learning of their students, and correspondingly, contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning.

• bridges the gap between the research and practice of SoTL


• provides explicit instructions on how to design, conduct, analyze, and write-up SoTL work


• includes samples of actual questionnaires and other materials (e.g., focus group questions) that will jumpstart investigations into teaching and learning


• explores the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical practices and present applications of SoTL using case studies from a variety of disciplines