Publishing on the Scholarship of Teaching

1. Publishing on the Scholarship of Teaching Ginger Holmes Rowell CBAS Teaching & Learning Seminar October 19, 2005

2. 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

3. 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

4. (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/

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

6. “Scholarship Assessed:An Evaluation of the Professoriate” Source: Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber, Gene I. Maeroff (2000)

7. “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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.”

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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 Librarieshttp://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)

17. 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

18. 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

19. Places to Publish • Examples related to the College of Basic & Applied Sciences • A Resource • http://www.mtsu.edu/~rowell/publish_teaching/index.htm