ISSOTL grants honorary life memberships to people for distinguished service to the scholarship of teaching and learning and/or to ISSOTL. There will be no more than two such awards per year, and lifetime members will pay no fees for membership.
- Craig Nelson (2009)
- Pat Hutchings (2009)
- Keith Trigwell (2010)
- Mike Prosser (2010)
- Barbara Cambridge (2011)
- Mary Taylor Huber (2011)
- Gary Poole (2012)
- Lee Shulman (2013)
- Dan Bernstein (2015)
- Mick Healey (2015)
- Jennifer Meta Robinson (2016)
- Nancy Chick (2017)
- Mary Ann Danielson (2018)
- Peter Felten (2018)
- Katarina Mårtensson (2019)
- Jessie L. Moore (2019)
- Bettie Higgs (2022)
- Sarah Bunnell (2022)