Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is an increasingly popular field of endeavor by college faculty and finds its roots in the Boyer Report (1990) called "Scholarship Reconsidered". In this report, Boyer articulated a new paradigm for faculty scholarly activity which expanded the concept of scholarship, traditionally viewed as the scientific discovery of new 

knowledge, to include three other equally important areas:  the scholarship of integration, the scholarship of application, and the scholarship of teaching.  Each of the three traditional forms of scholarship (teaching, research, and service) can be seen to perform all four functions (discovery, integration, application, and teaching) as defined by Boyer.  

"...viewing teaching as scholarly work is essential. Teachers have to so often carry out their work in isolation from their colleagues. The result is that those who engage in innovative acts of teaching do not have many opportunities to build upon the work of others... we seek to render teaching public, subject to critical evaluation, and usable by others in the field." Lee

Shulman, President Emeritus, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, speaking of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) program. At Illinois State, the faculty have defined SoTL as "systematic reflection on teaching and learning made public."  Indiana University also has a well developed faculty SoTL program. Kennesaw State University maintains a list of Journals that Publish the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning and Address General Issues in Higher Education.

At Auburn, the Biggio Center is engaged in SoTL - current focus for one strand of this work is the use of technology in the teaching and learning process. We have presented at the SoTL Commons Conference, March 2009 and will be presenting at Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2009 & POD Network Conference, October 2009.