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

5. 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 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

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 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 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 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.htmlhttp://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 http://www.merlot.org – National Science Digital Libraries http://nsdl.org/ http://nsdl.org/ Biology: MicrobeLibrary – http://www.microbelibrary.org/index.asp http://www.microbelibrary.org/index.asp Mathematics: MathDL – http://www.mathdl.org/jsp/index.jsp http://www.mathdl.org/jsp/index.jsp – Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA), http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/4/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 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 http://www.mtsu.edu/~rowell/publish_teaching/index.htm