6: Toward a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Educational Development

Educational development traditionally has been a practice-based field. We propose that asa profession weadopt the methods of thescholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), so often shared with our clients, in order to look through a scholarly lens at theoutcomes ofourownpractice. Using SoTL approaches in our work would deepen the research literature in ourfield and improve theeffectiveness ofdecisions we makeaboutwhere to spend limited time and resources. In this chapter, weexplore what it might mean for individual developers, andfor ourp~ofessiollal community, toapply SoTL methods toourpractice.