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Places to Publish Your Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning

Getting SOTL Articles Published-- A Few Tips by Kathleen McKinney, Cross Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University

http://www.cat.ilstu.edu

Discipline-Specific Journals

http://faculty.acu.edu/~mccallonm/sotl.html

Academic Exchange Quarterly

Academic Exchange Quarterly, ISSN 1096-1453, is an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed journal, that published research, commentary, and other manuscripts that contribute to effective instruction and learning regardless of the level or subject.

http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm

Active Learning in Higher Education

This new journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT) is an international, refereed publication. As the journal of the Institute, Active Learning in Higher Education supports this mission and is devoted to all aspects of development, innovation and good practice in higher education, including the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). The journal seeks to share practitioner experience through case studies, action research reports and accounts of changing practice and theoretical perspectives. Active Learning in Higher Education embraces academic practice across all curriculum areas in higher education.

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201469

American Journal of Education

This journal seeks to bridge and integrate the intellectual, methodological, and substantive diversity of educational scholarship, and to encourage a vigorous dialogue between educational scholars and practitioners. To achieve that goal, papers are published that present research, theoretical statements, philosophical arguments, critical syntheses of a field of educational inquiry, and integration of educational scholarship, policy, and practice.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJE

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

The purpose of the journal is to help advance understanding of assessment and evaluation practices and processes within the various disciplines representative of higher education, particularly in the contribution they make to student learning, and to course, staff and institutional development.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/02602938.html

Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

Change spotlights trends in, provides new insights about, and analyzes the implications of educational programs. Articles cover influential institutions and individuals, new teaching methods, curriculum, finances, governance, and public policy. Change is published six times a year with editorial leadership provided by the American Association for Higher Education. Editorial content includes special departments, regular columnists, a wide-ranging book review section, and in-depth analytical features on current issues in higher education.

http://www.heldref.org/change.php

The College Student Journal

This journal publishes original investigations and theoretical papers dealing with college student values, attitudes and opinions and all aspects of post-secondary instruction, instructional design, and evaluation.

Send manuscripts to : PO Box 8508 Spring Hill Station, Mobile, Alabama 36689

College Teaching

College Teaching provides an interdisciplinary forum on issues related to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This journal is interested in articles that explore: (1) Aims and outcomes of teaching philosophy and practices that have significance beyond a specific discipline. These may include teaching techniques, new classroom procedures, evaluations of innovative programs, and examination of contemporary developments. (2) Teachers’ roles, education, professional development, preparation to teach, and evaluation. (3) Incentives that encourage good teaching and ways good teaching is evaluated and rewarded.

http://www.heldref.org/

Harvard Educational Review

A scholarly journal of opinion and research in education with the mission to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and debate about education's most vital issues. Each year, the Review covers a wide range of topics of current concern in education. Each quarterly issue of the Review book length, containing a variety of articles, essays, and book reviews.

http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~hepg/her.html

The Educational Forum

This is a publication of the Kappa Delta Pi the international honor society in education. The journal presents scholarly inquiries that generate new knowledge and insights into the improvement of education.

http://www.kdp.org/

Educational Researcher

http://www.jstor.org/journals/0013189X.html

Higher Education Perspectives

Faculty, graduate students, scholars, researchers, policy makers, and administrators in Higher Education and related fields are invited to submit research articles, theoretical papers, literature, book and essay reviews, or revised conference papers that analyze, challenge, and/or create Higher Education theory, history, philosophy, policy, and Practice. Higher Education Perspectives is a peer-reviewed journal published by The Higher Education Group, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

hep@oise.utoronto.ca

Higher Education Research and Development

The aim of Higher Education Research and Development aims to inform improvements in practice through reporting research and evaluations and promoting scholarly reflective articles on practice, policy and theory. The journal, is addressed to university and college faculty from all disciplines and to higher education administrators.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/07294360.html

Innovative Higher Education

Innovative Higher Education is a refereed journal that strives to package fresh ideas in higher education in a straightforward and readable fashion. It is open to diverse forms of scholarship and research methods; balances a focus on practice and theory; presents innovations and provocative ideas; and focuses on the effects of such innovations on teaching and students.

http://www.uga.edu/ihe/IHE.html

Inventio: A Journal of Creative Thinking about Learning and Teaching

A journal of the Department of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies (DoIIIT) at George Mason University, the inaugural February 1999 issue focused on the scholarship of teaching and George Mason’s participation in the Carnegie Foundation’s Teaching Academy.

http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/inventio/

Journal for the Art of Teaching

The Journal for the Art of Teaching is an annual publication by faculty about teaching and learning. Each issue is focused on a single general topic and is published in late spring. Article proposals are welcomed from any faculty.

http://academy.fiu.edu/aat/index.php/publications/journal_for_the_art_of_teaching

Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning

The Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning (JCAL) is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to disseminating research on holistic educational practices that focus on the significance of the cognitive-affective relationship in promoting deep and enduring learning.

http://www.jcal.emory.edu/index.php

The focus of the JCC is on moral and civic learning in higher education and is published on the Internet by the Center for the Study of Values in Collage Student Development at Florida State University. The JCC is published on an ongoing basis with new articles and entries added on a weekly and monthly basis.

http://www.collegevalues.org/articles.cfm

Journal of College Student Development

Writers are encouraged to submit manuscripts concerning student development, professional development, professional issues, administrative concerns, and creative programs to improve student services. Manuscripts may focus on recent original research, replication of research, reviews of research, or essays on theoretical, organizational, and professional issues. Manuscripts should address one of the following: support for the extension of knowledge in the area of developmental theory, support for increasing sophistication in the assessment of developmental change and the factors contributing thereto, support for practitioner efforts to apply theoretical developmental constructs to programs in the field, support for increasing our knowledge of organizational behaviors so that effective tactics and strategies might be applied to the implementation of developmentally focused programs on the campus.

http://www.jcsdonline.org/homepage.html

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching

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. 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.

http://celt.muohio.edu/ject/

The Journal of Experimental Education

Publishes basic and applied research studies that use the range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies found in the behavioral, cognitive, and social sciences. The journal is divided into three sections: Learning and Instruction; Motivation and Social Processes; and Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design.

http://www.heldref.org/

Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition

Journal of General Education

For faculty, administrators, and policy makers, JGE is the professional forum for discussing issues in general education today. It addresses the general education concerns of community colleges, four-year colleges, universities, and state systems. Along with perspective essays on the role of general education today, JGE features articles on: Innovative methods in teaching and assessment, Profiles of exemplary general education programs, Case studies of successful curriculum development efforts, and Reviews of books and monographs related to general education.

http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_jge.html

Journal of Higher Education

Through full-length articles, commentary, and book reviews, the JHE encourages creation of effective policy solutions and enhancement of professional development in all areas within the university, the four-year college, and the community college.

http://www.jstor.org/journals/00221546.html

Journal of Public Service and Outreach

A peer-reviewed journal that is published three times per year (fall, spring, summer). Contributions solicited include applied research, case studies, and professional reports. JPSO welcomes submissions from a wide variety of scholars and professionals. Articles will be accepted from researchers and practitioners at post-secondary educational institutions, community colleges, community outreach, and other public-service
programs.

http://www.uga.edu/~jpso

The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL)

The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) is a forum for the dissemination of the SoTL in higher education. This peer reviewed Journal promotes investigations that are theory-based and supported by evidence. JoSoTL’s objective is to publish articles that promote effective practices in teaching and learning and add to the knowledge base. Themes of articles include: data-driven studies; reflective essays; reviews; case studies; and comments and communications.

http://www.iupui.edu/~josotl/

Journal of Student Centered Learning

The Journal of Student Centered Learning is published three times a year to exchange both practical and theoretical information regarding the planning, design, implementation, and assessment of practices and programs that enhance college teaching and learning through student-centered learning.

The journal publishes research articles and descriptions of exemplary practice related to improved college teaching, technology, development, and assessment. Although oriented primarily to the interests of the practitioner, the Journal invites theoretical think pieces and readable summaries of research that have practical implications for faculty in colleges and universities. The Journal is also interested in publishing information about resource development and personnel practices that facilitate and support better student centered learning.

http://www.newforums.com/news_jccauthor.htm

Liberal Education

This quarterly journal of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, brings the best thinking concerning liberal learning as it is translated into practice and about research in action. It makes connections between principles that underlie a theory and the actions that result from those principles.

Mountain Rise is an 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 a vehicle for national and international publication of articles on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. 

http://mountianrise.wcu.edu/

Offers interactive access to information and discussion of teaching. Intended to involve educators in a conversation about teaching and learning, the forum began as a joint venture with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education.

http://www.ntlf.com/

http://www.scup.org/phe.htm

The editor of Studies in Higher Education encourages three kinds of paper: those which illuminate teaching and learning by bringing to bear particular disciplinary perspectives (such as those of sociology, philosophy, psychology, economics and history, and cultural and policy studies); those in which teachers in higher education engage in systematic reflection on their own practices and; synoptic review articles and; synoptic review articles.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/03075079.html

An on-line journal that looks at issues concerning scholarly inquiry about teaching and learning at metropolitan universities

http://cfds.sjsu.edu/itl/journal/Submissions/

The Successful Professor is an e-journal the serves as an international forum for faculty to share innovative teaching strategies and techniques for use in the traditional classroom, the cyber classroom, the laboratory, the clinic, and the workshop.

editor@thesuccessfulprofessor.com

Teaching in Higher Education is interdisciplinary and aims to open up discussion across subject areas by involving all those who share an enthusiasm for learning and teaching. In particular the journal:

Critically examines the values and presuppositions underpinning teaching
Identifies new agendas for research
Introduces comparative perspectives and insights drawn from different cultures
Aims to apply and develop sustained reflection, investigation and critique to learning and teaching in higher education
Considers how teaching and research can be brought into closer relationship and how teaching in higher education can itself become a field of research.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13562517.asp

Focuses on educational strategies in colleges and universities. Includes innovative strategies, techniques, and approaches that facilitate learning and reflective analysis of educational issues of concern.

For questions about newsletter articles call 608-227-8107

deborahh@magnapubs.com