Moving From Scholarly Teaching and Learning to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Global Imperative

ABSTRACT Academic staff worldwide wishing to enhance teaching should first acknowledge and understand why quality teaching is critical for student improvement and institutional and community survival. Then it is recommended that academic staff develop an approach to teaching improvement that builds upon a firm foundation of scholarly teaching and learning. Central to this process is a review and understanding of theories and research on human learning and research on teaching effectiveness. With this foundation, academic staff can develop a scholarship of teaching and learning to assess the impact of their teaching upon student learning, and subsequently to share their findings with colleagues, both within and outside their university, to assist in future teaching and learning improvement. In this way, a true community of evidence‐based teaching can have a greater global impact.