Published! Glessmer et al. (2025) on “How to SoTL”

Ok, “How to SoTL” is only the working title of the paper and the name of the Teams group in which we all collaborated, the actual title ended up being “Developing a scholarly approach and contributing to conversations about teaching and learning“. But: that paper was just published last night in Oceanography!

I wrote it together with my colleagues Kjersti Daae, Oddfrid Førland, and Robert Kordts, to address a need that we have identified in our roles as editors for various SoTL journals: To provide a low-threshold introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. While many great books on introductions to SoTL exist (like the new Chick et al., 2025), we were aiming for a 5-page intro that gives a super quick overview and easy starting point, and, importantly, written in the context of the specific journal. And I think we did pretty well: The whole document is 7 pages, but if you take away a “box” and all the references, then we made it on 5! Now I just hope that it turns out to be as useful as we think it should be…

Below, you see the happy author team on our writing day in Bergen. The big screen shows an early version of the first figure of the paper (see also featured image above), my laptop shows the Beckingham (2025) SoTL staircase that we built on with our second figure in the paper. And in the window you see my #KitchenOceanography postcard that has been up there for years. Funnily enough: none of this is staged! :-)

I am pretty proud of this paper, check it out and let me know what you think!

Glessmer, M.S., K. Daae, O. Førland, and R. Kordts. 2025. Developing a scholarly approach and contributing to conversations about teaching and learning. Oceanography 38(4), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025.e410.

The team left to right: Oddfrid, Kjesti, Robert, Mirjam