Education scholarship is an umbrella term which can encompass both research and innovation in health professions education.
Quality in education scholarship is attained through work that is: peer-reviewed, publicly disseminated and provides a platform that others can build on.
Projects that are interdisciplinary, or connect across time, or use knowledge from one field and apply it to another, or interpret another discipline’s research into your field and making meaning along the way.
Some helpful introductory references on education scholarship:
Cook DA, Bordage G, Schmidt HG. Description, justification and clarification: a framework for classifying the purposes of research in medical education. Medical education. 2008 Feb 1;42(2):128-33. PDF
Ringsted C, Hodges B, Scherpbier A. ‘The research compass’: An introduction to research in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 56. Medical teacher. 2011 Sep 1;33(9):695-709. PDF