Teaching and Learning Resources

Get Started in the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning

Elgie, S., Childs, R., Fenton, N. E., Levy, B. A., Lopes, V., Szala-Meneok, K., & Wiggers, R. D. (2012). Researching teaching and student outcomes in postsecondary education: A guide. Toronto, ON: Queen’s Printer for Ontario

Fenton, N. E., & Szala-Meneok, K. (2010). Research on teaching and learning guidebook. Hamilton, ON: McMaster University Centre for Leadership in Learning

Kathleen McKinney’s SoTL site at Illinois State

Connect to Other Scholarship on Teaching and Learning Scholars

Join SoTL Canada

Attend Conferences such as the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL)

Find Relevant Scholarship on Teaching and Learning Literature

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Annotated Literature Database

Find Where to Publish Scholarship on Teaching and Learning

• Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJ-SoTL)
• Teaching and Learning Inquiry (TLI)
• International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IJ-SoTL)
• Transformative Dialogues 
• McKinney on Getting Published in SoTL
• Other disciplinary education journals

Recording on "How Do Non-Indigenous People Teach About Indigenous Material in their Classes?"
featuring Panelists:  Phil Abbott, Paula Anderson, Dawn Lavell-Harvard & Paula Sherman & Moderator, Cathy Bruce

Top 10 Books on Teaching 

Scholarship on Teaching and Learning Publications by Trent Faculty

Mathematics Classroom Collaborator (MC2): Technology for Democratizing the Classroom (Pollanen & Cater, 2018)

Study of the first year academic experience at a growing liberal arts institution (Hanley-Dafoe & Bruce, 2018)

Student engagement within a forensic science course (Illes, Bruce, Stotesbury, Hanley-Dafoe, 2018)

Novel Technological Approaches for Pedagogy in Forensic Science A Case Study in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (illes, Bruce, Stotesbury, Hanley-Dafoe, 2016)

Increasing nursing students' understanding and accuracy with medical dose calculations: A collaborative approach (Mackie & Bruce)

Case studies in a flipped classroom: An approach to support nursing learning in pharmacology and pathophysiology (Mackie & Bruce) 

Hanley-Dafoe, R. & Jorgensen, M. (2018). Using professional learning communities to foster scholarly practices of teaching: How centres for teaching and learning can support faculty in collective capacity building as scholars of teaching and learning. Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) 2018 Conference, Sherbrooke, Quebec

Trent's Online Teaching Community Site

Trent Online has developed an Online Teaching Community Site to support instructors in designing, building, preparing, and facilitating online courses. The site includes guidance and resources on digital pedagogy as well as examples of tools for engagement, collaboration, and assessment. All Trent faculty are welcome to access and participate in this community site. If you would like to be enrolled in the site, please contact teaching@trentu.ca.

Other Resources

Recording on "How Do Non-Indigenous People Teach About Indigenous Material in their Classes?"
featuring Panelists:  Phil Abbott, Paula Anderson, Dawn Lavell-Harvard & Paula Sherman & Moderator, Cathy Bruce

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Top 10 Books on Teaching 

Innovation in Education: Toward Universal Instructional Design 
A presentation from Trent's Student Accessibility Services Office

Creating Connections with Indigenous Perspectives in Education
A panel from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology featuring Bernard Leroux, Dr. Joey-Lynn Wabie, Mitch Huguenin (Trent CTL), Nancy Hamer Strahl & Cat Criger  

Please browse through our extensive list of resources by clicking on the sub-pages on the right.  If you have any additional suggestions and links related to teaching and learning, please feel free to send to teaching@trentu.ca