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Conducting SoTL Literature Reviews

Conducting a literature review is essential to any SoTL project, but it can be challenging to know where to begin. This collection offers practical tools and strategies to help you search for, organize, and engage with SoTL literature—whether you're using traditional methods, AI tools, or both.

Scholarship of Teaching
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Jess Taggart
Assistant Director & Assistant Professor
Center for Teaching Excellence
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Lindsay Wheeler
Associate Professor & Senior Associate Director
Center for Teaching Excellence
Updated: June 2025
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Finding SoTL Research

This reference guide by Lindsay McNiff and Lauren Hays highlights what makes SoTL literature searching different from disciplinary literature searching and provides practical tips for finding SoTL research and staying current.

Elon University Center for Engaged Learning
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Higher Education Research Guide

The University of Virginia Library's Higher Education Research Guide brings together a list of databases focused on higher education, along with guidance on how to access desired resources.

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Starter Prompts for an AI-Enhanced Literature Review Process

Drs. Heidi Nobles and Jessica Taggart provide a collection of prompts to get you started in using general generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) to enhance your SoTL literature review process.

Heidi Nobles and Jessica Taggart
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Conducting a Literature Search

This worksheet, developed for the University of Virginia’s SoTL Scholars program, walks you through searching for SoTL literature, from selecting relevant journals and keywords to identifying relevant articles–with and without AI.

Jessica Taggart
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Literature Review Matrix

Dr. Gary Burkholder provides two examples of how to put together a literature review matrix to help organize your SoTL articles and make it easy to retrieve relevant information. Two templates—one for Word, the other for Excel—are provided.

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