Making a difference: Application of SoTL to enhance learning

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Published: May 24, 2012
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application strategies, enhance learning, impact

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Kathleen McKinney
Illinois State University

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In this essay, I remind readers of the importance of using SoTL work in a range of ways and settings at different levels to increase our impact on student learning as well as institutional and disciplinary cultures. I briefly discuss and illustrate six strategies already in use on which we can build.

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McKinney, K. (2012). Making a difference: Application of SoTL to enhance learning. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12(1), 1–7. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/1971
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Volume 12, Number 1
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Author Biography

Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State University

Cross Endowed Chair in SoTL and Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University, Box 6370, Normal, IL 61790.

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