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This list was compiled by Musa Abdul Hakim, senior assistant librarian at Buffalo State College. His statement follows:

“As archivists and bibliographers of the print and digital worlds, as teachers of information literacy, and as producers and consumers of scholarship, academic librarians should have a great interest and investment in the success of the scholarship of teaching and learning movement. They value scholarship and pedagogy. Bibliographic and ‘webliographic’ research aids like this are their trademarks.

A comprehensive directory and guide to Internet resources on the scholarship of teaching and learning is urgently needed. It will facilitate access to the research, analysis, synthesis, and scholarship of the rapidly proliferating, potentially revolutionary, local and national interdisciplinary epistemological and pedagogical initiatives, that will/are transform(ing) academic culture praxis.”

Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Programs

This index provides a good starting point for research, examples of previous projects, and information about future directions.
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/index.asp

Articles | Electronic Journals | Guidelines and Reports

Organizations and Associations | Programs

Tutorials and Additional Resources

Articles

“Creating a Culture for the Scholarship of Teaching”
Hugh Sockett. Inventio Issue 1, vol. 2 February 2000

Addresses connected obstacles in the “culture and infrastructure” to productive ideas on the scholarship of teaching. These are the context of public discourse on teaching, the gap between student expectations and faculty ideals, and the development of a language of the scholarship of teaching.
http://www.doit.gmu.edu/inventio/past/display_past.asp?pID=spring00&sID=sockett

“Developing Discourse Communities Around the Scholarship of Teaching”
Carnegie Chronicle – (Supplemental Material) October 1999 vol. 8 no. 6

Discusses one of the major challenges in supporting the scholarship of teaching: encouraging not just those interested in pursuing such work, but helping to develop the “field” itself. The scholarship of teaching can flourish only with the development of communities of scholars who share, critique, and build upon each other’s work.
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/carnegie/86huber.htm

“Scholarship and Teaching: a Matter of Mutual Support”
Francis Oakley, American Council of Learned Societies, 1995.

Examines allegations of a “retreat from teaching” on the part of faculty, and suggests that excessive interest in scholarship is partly to blame for the putative educational failings of colleges and universities.
http://www.acls.org/op32.htm

The Scholarship of Teaching as Science and as Art”
Mary Cipriano Silva. Inventio vol. 1, no 1, February 1999

Discusses scholars, scholarships, and examples of pedagogy as they relate to the scholarship of teaching in nursing and health science and offers a definition of the scholarship of teaching.
http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/silva1.htm

“The Scholarship of Teaching: Two Suggestions and One Caution”
Roy Rosenzweig. Inventio vol. 1, no. 1, February 1999

If we can agree that a scholarship of teaching is worth pursuing or at least trying, then how do we begin? The author offers two simple propositions and one caution from the perspective of history.
http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/roy_1.htm

“The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem?”
Randy Bass Inventio vol. 1, no. 1, February 1999.

Changing the status of the problem in teaching from terminal remediation to ongoing investigation is precisely what the movement for a scholarship of teaching is about. How might we make the problematization of teaching a matter of regular communal discourse and how might we think of teaching practice, and the evidence of student learning, as problems to be investigated, represented, and debated?
http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/randybass.htm

“Teaching and Learning as Social Activities: The Scholarship of Teaching in a Learning Community”
Anne Agee, Susan Kehoe, Cindy Lont, and Ann Palkovich. Inventio vol. 1, no. 1, February 1999.

How does George Mason University’s Department of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies (DoIIIT) participate in and facilitates the scholarship of teaching in a learning community? This dialogue models the collaborative approach the authors view as characteristic of their work and of a learning community in general. http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/aklp_1.htm

Electronic Journals

The Carnegie Chronicle

This special section of The National Teaching and Learning Forum’s online edition is sponsored/supported by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Articles are accompanied by research proposals, contact information, and other supplemental materials.
http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/carnegie/index.htm

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/

The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL)

A new journal from Indiana University South Bend. Includes reports of research on teaching and learning, formal research articles, classroom action research, and reflective essays.
http://www.iupui.edu/~josotl

The National Teaching and Learning Forum on-line edition

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/

Networks

A Canadian journal of articles, reports, and book reviews on current issues in teacher research including classroom research, methodology and collaboration.
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/

Research and Creative Activity
Office of Research and the University Graduate School, Indiana University
(issue: The Scholarship of Teaching vol. XXII, no. 1, April 1999)

This publication profiles professional accomplishments of distinguished faculty and graduate students. The April 1999 issue focuses on the scholarship of teaching. http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v22n1/p01.html

Guidelines and Reports

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

This program aims to create a community of scholars who will contribute to the scholarship of teaching. Initiatives include supporting the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning; enhancing the practice and profession of teaching; and bringing to teaching the recognition and reward afforded to other forms of scholarly work. Includes grant application information.
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Pres/boyer.nsf/

Scholarship in the APS Model

Boyer’s definition serves as a model of scholarship for Indiana Wesleyan University, Division of Adult and Professional Studies (APS). This model unites four separate but interlocking parts of a dynamic process that involves students, faculty, curriculum, and society.
http://www.uky.edu/~drlane/teach.html

Scholarship of Teaching Workshop
Hunter College

Highlights a Hunter College workshop during which faculty discussed the impact of the scholarship of teaching on assessment, the promotion process, and the improvement of undergraduate instruction.
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/tlc/research/undergrad/index.shtml

The Teaching Exchange – “Toward a Scholarship of Teaching”
speech by Michael J. V. Woolcock, Ph. D.

“In an academic environment that seems only to require, recognize, and reward research productivity, the best approach …is …to establish rigorous procedures whereby the quality of teaching can also be verified by, demonstrated to, and shared with others.”
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Sheridan_Center/

Organizations and Associations

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The Maricopa Institute for Learning

To provide faculty with the time, the context, and the environment to engage in learning, this institute offers a year-long fellowship for highly innovative faculty. This allows fellows to commit and engage in community college leadership; to investigate, research, and develop learning and teaching scholarship; and to manifest and promote deeper understanding and commitment to student learning. The concept evolved from conversations with the learning@maricopa.edu team and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
http://hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mil/about.php?s=sotl

Programs

Cal Polu - Scholarship of Teaching

A report details of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Subcommittee on the Scholarship of Teaching, charged with evaluating and assessing faculty perceptions of the intellectual environment of Cal Poly as a “center of learning,” with specific reference to faculty development.
http://www.academicprograms.calpoly.edu/accred_progrev/wasc/innovative/reports/schol_teach/schol_teach.htm

Campus Conversations about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
University of Akron
http://www.uakron.edu/itl/

Center for Teaching Excellence
University of North Carolina at Wilmington

This site includes a useful “Calendar View” of planned activities, accessible from “Spring 2000 Events.”
http://www.uncw.edu/cte/sot.htm

Scholarship of Teaching
Saint Xavier University

This interactive site allows users to send e-mail to or join the SXU Scholarship of Teaching listserv, as well as read/post messages on the university’s scholarship of learning bulletin board and do HTML link sharing.
http://english.sxu.edu/carnegie/

Teaching and Learning Center

This index contains links to regional and national teaching and learning centers. http://trc.virginia.edu/Resources/T_L_Centers.htm

Tutorials and additional resources

An Annotated Bibliography of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This bibliography, compiled early in the project, aimed to establish a baseline against which progress in the higher education arena could be gauged at the end of a five-year funding cycle. It also acknowledges the work that CASTL builds on, and locates this new effort in the longer trajectory of related developments.
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/dynamic/downloads/file_1_196.pdf

Scholarship at Work at UWA
Issues of Teaching and Learning, Volume 4 Issue 2

Explores Boyer’s concept of scholarship as applied to different roles in the context of the University of Western Australia.
http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/newsletter/issue0298/work.html

The Scholarship of Teaching Resources
Office of Instructional Support and Development, University of Georgia

This page contains links to scholarship of teaching Web resources organized under themes such as teaching goals, preparation for teaching, implementation and methods, outcomes and assessment, and reflection.
http://www.isd.uga.edu/faculty/publications/scholarship/