Publishing on the Scholarship of Teaching

Ginger Holmes RowellCBAS Teaching & Learning

Seminar

October 19, 2005

Outline

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Sharing this “Scholarship” Peer Review of the Teaching Process Peer Review for Learning Resources Other Peer Reviewed Publication Options

– Places to Publish

Outline

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Sharing this “Scholarship” Peer Review of the Teaching Process Peer Review for Learning Resources Other Peer Reviewed Publication Options

– Places to Publish

(CASTL) The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Supports development of a scholarship of teaching and learning that will: 1) foster significant, long-lasting learning for all

students;

2) enhance the practice and profession of teaching; and

3) reward and recognize faculty’s work as teachers.

Major initiative of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Source: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/

CASTL Project Origins and Future

Builds on American Association of Higher Education peer review of teaching project– worked to develop strategies for documenting teaching

and learning, and making such work "community property"

Builds on the earlier Carnegie reports:– Scholarship Reconsidered

Reviewed: http://www.uu.edu/centers/faculty/bookreviews/lunsford.htm

– Scholarship Assessed Reviewed: http://www.uu.edu/centers/faculty/bookreviews/mallard.htm

Source: http://www.pewundergradforum.org/project7.html

“Scholarship Assessed:An Evaluation of the Professoriate”

Source: Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, Gene I. Maeroff (2000)

“Ten Ways Educational Leaders Can Support the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning”

CASTL Brochure (2003)– …– Peer Review

“Welcome the scholarship of teaching and learning as part of the case for promotion and tenure, and require that such work be externally peer reviewed.”

– …

Source:http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/highered/docs/CarnegieCASTLBrochure2003.pdf

Outline

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Sharing this “Scholarship” Peer Review of the Teaching Process Peer Review for Learning Resources Other Peer Reviewed Publication Options

– Places to Publish

Sharing this “Scholarship”: One Example

The KEEP ToolKit: a means of documenting and sharing the “Scholarship of Teaching”

Example – Studio Physics– http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/KML/KEEP/belcher1/index.html

– Templates (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Program)

Professor’s Homepage Template: http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=88014578435584

Topics Page Template: http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=17531114739861

Partnership: Carnegie Foundation & MERLOT

MERLOT

KEEP Toolkit for Online Learning Resources Math Example:

– http://www.cfkeep.org/html/snapshot.php?id=36529625

Source: Journal of Online Teaching & Learning. Vol. 1, No. 1, July 2005.Article Link: http://jolt.merlot.org/vol1_no1_iiyoshi.htm

Outline

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Sharing this “Scholarship” Peer Review of the Teaching Process Peer Review for Learning Resources Other Peer Reviewed Publication Options

– Places to Publish

Peer Review of Teaching

An Issue for Tenure/Promotion (new guidelines)

Various Definitions A More traditional Assessment

– Temple University Teaching/Learning Center Observations– http://www.sbm.temple.edu/foxteach/peer_reviews.htm

Scholarship of Teaching/Learning– The review process should be more than just a

“classroom observation.”

Peer Review of Teaching Project –University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Combines – inquiry into the intellectual work of a course– careful investigation of student understanding and

performance, and – faculty reflection on teaching effectiveness

Key objective: mentor faculty to document, assess, & discuss the intellectual work in their courses & impact on student learning

Source: http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/index.html

Project Examples – Course Portfolios

A systematic, long-term approach Requires collection & analysis of student work. Faculty

– explore what is going on in their classrooms,– analyze their course objectives, – and document and assess whether what they want

to be happening is really happening.

Nursing Example:http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/allenPfolio.pdf

Outline

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Sharing this “Scholarship” Peer Review of the Teaching Process Peer Review for Learning Resources Other Peer Reviewed Publication Options

– Places to Publish

Peer Reviewed Learning Materials

Traditional: Textbooks, Workbooks, etc.

Other Options for Smaller Modules– MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning

and Online Teaching) http://www.merlot.org

– National Science Digital Libraries http://nsdl.org/ Biology: MicrobeLibrary

– http://www.microbelibrary.org/index.asp Mathematics: MathDL

– http://www.mathdl.org/jsp/index.jsp– Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA),

http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/4/ Statistics: CAUSEweb (www.causeweb.org)

Peer Reviewed Example Learning Materials: MERLOT

Peer Reviewed Example of Online Learning Materials– Fibinoci Numbers

http://www.merlot.org/artifact/ArtifactDetail.po?oid=1400000000000022710

– Peer-review Example http://www.merlot.org/artifact/PeerReviewDetail.po?rOid=1400000000000020145

Peer-review Process– http://www.merlot.org/home/PeerReview.po

Outline

Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Sharing this “Scholarship” Peer Review of the Teaching Process Peer Review for Learning Resources Other Peer Reviewed Publication Options

– Places to Publish

Places to Publish

Examples related to the College of Basic & Applied Sciences

A Resource– http://www.mtsu.edu/~rowell/publish_teaching/index.htm