What is Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Academe is the bimonthly magazine of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). It analyzes higher education issues from faculty members' perspectives. The magazine begins with an incisive round-up of news affecting professors. Feature articles examine tenure, affirmative action, part-time faculty appointments, distance education, intellectual property, and other timely academic issues. Investigative reports on violations of academic freedom and tenure are regular components. Columns cover legal trends, legislative developments, and new scholarly books.
Popular journal, analysis-focused, less SoTL than HE-issues. (Very high bar due to popular nature.)
Academic Exchange Quarterly (founded 1997), an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, welcomes research, commentary, and other manuscripts that contribute to the effective instruction and learning regardless of level or subject.
Qualitative, informal research, case studies, and personal reflections acceptable. (Low bar)
College Teaching, a unique, cross-disciplinary journal, focuses on how teachers can improve student learning. Each issue includes practical ideas and new strategies for successful teaching. Both new and veteran faculty appreciate the scope of CT's rigorously refereed articles on classroom research, student assessment, diversity, student-centered instruction, and accountability within the academy. (The journal cannot use: (1) articles that are purely descriptive without any critical evaluation or analysis, (2) those that are limited to one specific discipline, or (3) those that show no awareness of current work and literature in the field.)
Classic educational journal, focused on praxis. (High bar)
Innovate (founded 2004) is an open access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in academic, commercial, and governmental settings. Our basic assumption is that innovative uses of technology in one sector can inform innovative uses of technology in each of the other sectors. We welcome submissions from a wide community of practitioners-from professors, teachers, trainers, and support specialists to program administrators, software designers, and leaders in the information technology industry.
Theory-focused, mostly qualitative research. (High bar)
Innovative Higher Education (founded 1975) is a blind-peer-reviewed scholarly journal. IHE's goals are: To present descriptions and evaluations of innovations and provocative new ideas with relevance for action beyond the immediate context in higher education; to focus on the effect of such innovations on teaching and students; to be open to diverse forms of scholarship and research methods by maintaining flexibility in the selection of topics deemed appropriate for the journal; and to strike a balance between practice and theory by presenting manuscripts in a readable and scholarly manner to both faculty and administrators in the academic community.
Praxis and theory in balance; quantitative and qualitative work accepted; case studies of individual classes not suitable. (High bar)
International Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJSoTL, founded 2007) is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University to be an international vehicle for articles, essays, and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education today. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process. SoTL is a key way to improve teaching effectiveness, student learning outcomes, and the continuous transformation of academic cultures and communities. Through research questions and methodologies applied to teaching and learning, the making public of that research and its results so that it can be analyzed and critiqued, and through the constructing of an available, growing body of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom about the teaching and learning processes and outcomes, college and university teaching is seen as a serious intellectual activity that can be evidence and outcome based.
Highly theoretical; empirical research must have conceptual or theoretical framework. (High bar)
The Journal of Effective Teaching (founded 1996?) is a double-blind, peer reviewed electronic journal devoted to the discussion of teaching excellence in colleges and universities. JET will publish two regular issues per year and possibly a special issue on a current topic. The regular issues will contain articles in two broad Content Areas: effective teaching and the scholarship of teaching. We invite contributors to share their insights in pedagogy, innovations in teaching and learning, and classroom experiences in the form of a scholarly communication. We are particularly interested in topics addressed in the particular Content Areas described at this site, including empirical research on pedagogy, innovations in teaching and learning, and classroom experiences.
Qualitative, informal research, case studies, and personal reflections acceptable. (Low bar)
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching (founded 1990) is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences. It answers Ernest Boyer's (1990) call for a forum to present the scholarship of teaching and learning. The Journal provides a scholarly, written forum for discussion by faculty about all areas affecting teaching and learning, and gives faculty the opportunity to share proven, innovative pedagogies and thoughtful, inspirational insights about teaching.
Qualitative and quantitative research, analysis of educational trends, classroom case studies acceptable. (Medium bar)
MountainRise (founded 2003) is an open access, blind-peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Western Carolina University for the purpose of being an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL). By applying scholarly methodologies to the processes of teaching and learning, making that reflection and research public and open to critique, and thereby enabling a body of knowledge to develop, be reviewed and revised, the intellectual foundation, vision and practice of teaching are emphasized and enhanced.
Qualitative, informal research, case studies, and personal reflections acceptable. (Low bar)
National Teaching and Learning Forum
NTLF welcomes the variety of interesting manuscripts on teaching and learning we have been receiving, and we know there are more of our readers with valuable things to say. Have you been thinking about writing on some aspect of your teaching? We encourage you to sit down and do it. We'd like to hear from you. Send us your thoughts. Articles may address any aspect of the topic, and may be discipline-specific or general in nature. However, it's important to keep a diverse readership in mind, since faculty from all disciplines and in all 50 states (and a growing international audience) now read The National Teaching and Learning Forum. Submissions may not exceed 1500 words (six ordinary typed pages) except in extremely unusual circumstances, and should be shorter whenever possible.
Highly personal, idiosyncratic. (Very low bar)
The Teaching Professor Newsletter
The Teaching Professor (founded 1987?) is a forum for discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in the college classroom. From tips for class discussion to mentoring fellow faculty, The Teaching Professor stretches from the theoretical to the highly specific. Typical topics include assessment and evaluation, engagement of student interest, faculty time management, and the learner-centered classroom. The articles are a combination of review of the latest pedagogical research in a wide variety of disciplines and submitted articles that discuss practical applications of teaching techniques.
Popular journal, praxis focused. (High bar due to limited space and popularity.)
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