The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Teaching Effectiveness

an either-or mentality prevailed in the aca-demic world. If you were a good teacher, you weren’t taken seriously as a researcher. If you were a good researcher, you weren’t expected to be a good teacher. Today, I’m more optimistic about the choices faculty members have. One reason for my opti-mism is the introduction of the concept of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL). Instead of forcing faculty to choose between research and teaching, SOTL rec-ognizes that teaching is an integral part of faculty scholarship. In my opinion, busi-ness schools, and more importantly, our students, would be better served if SOT