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SoTL DBER

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is an evidence-based exploration of teaching and learning process. The goal of SoTL is to improve teaching and learning, and can include using evidence-based strategies, scholarly teaching, and adding to the evidence of scholarship of teaching and learning. In STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields DBER (discipline-based education research) includes developing generalizable theories and models.

The Drake Institute strives to support the use of evidence-based teaching practices and adding to the evidence by introducing educators to SoTL/DBER practices, supporting the development and completion of projects, and elevating the dissemination of SoTL/DBER projects and educational innovations developed at Ohio State.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Participants will be able to describe critical components of a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) or discipline-based education research (DBER) project.
  • Participants will be able to demonstrate integration of one or more critical elements of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) or discipline-based education research (DBER) into a project or study.

Educator Research for Medicine and the Health Sciences

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