This is the first episode of our 5th season of Centering Centers which focuses on the Scholarship of Educational Development and I’m thrilled to welcome Laura Cruz today who will give us an overview of the SoED landscape.

Laura Cruz is an associate research professor of Teaching and Learning Scholarship

At Penn State's Schreyer Institute of Teaching Excellence. In addition to authoring numerous articles and launching and leading multiple Centers for teaching and learning, she has served as editor on academic journals including To Improve the Academy and recently co-authored a book that many folks in our listening audience might value in called “Taking Flight: Making your Center for Teaching and learning soar” which synthesizes research and provides practical guidance for running centers of teaching and learning. 

In this episode, Laura provides an overview of the SoED landscape and shares experiences and ideas that inspired and informed her recent IJAD article, Embracing complexity: an inclusive framework for the scholarship of educational development, Laura Cruz, Elizabeth Dickens, Anna L. Bostwick Flaming, and Lindsay B. Wheeler

Transcript