Brain, Mind, Experience, and School - This book offers research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions about how people learn. It examines research findings and their implications for what and how we teach and how we assess learners. This book is available for download on the National Academies Press website. It is a large document (386 pages/4,948 KB).
Learning & Teaching in Medicine
Learning and Teaching in Medicine is a series published in 2003 by the British Medical Journal. This series is available for free. If you are a clinician educator or basic scientist you will find one or more of these topics relevant to the type(s) of learners and/or environments where you typically deliver instruction. You can also access the series through the OUHSC Libraries link to PubMedCentral.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is the systematic inquiry into teaching and learning. In SOTL faculty/instructors use research expertise to enhance learning experiences for students. As an evidence-based approach, faculty can use SOTL as a method to refine their own teaching strategies. Substantive and peer-reviewed research over many decades, particularly following the Carnegie report, demonstrates that embracing the SoTL as a principle of practice can transform teaching and learning, and improves student learning practices and otcomes (Hutchings, Huber, & Ciccone, 2011).