October 2005 - The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

The following is a special issue of entirely focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning. We have included a podcast in various formats as well as linked resources.

Anyone who like to get together on a regular basis to scholarship of teaching and learning, please contact Bill Muirhead.

Podcast - Why should faculty be concerned about the scholarship of teaching and learning

Featuring: Dr. Robert Bender, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia
Interviewer: Bill Muirhead, Associate Provost Teaching and Learning

Play it / hear it - MP3 file - 1 MB

Has Scholarship Been Reconsidered?

Teaching vs. research. That divide — real or imagined — has shaped many a faculty career and many a debate over priorities in higher education. And the dichotomy continues to be discussed today.

http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/04/tenure

Scholarship Revisited

In 1990 Ernest Boyer published Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate in which he argued that our understanding of scholarship has been too narrowly focused on basic research, with other functions such as teaching and application flowing from, rather than being on a par with research. He proposed an alternative model for scholarship that goes beyond the teaching versus research debate and aims to give all aspects of academic work 'legitimacy'. This article discusses this issue.

http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/newsletter/Issue0298/scholarship.html

Teaching as Scholarship

Ernest Boyer suggested we think of scholarship in four ways.

http://www.nyu.edu/cte/Scholars.html#Boyer

Other Resources

A list of resources on the scholarship of teaching and learning

What Students Say About Emerging Practices and Learning Technology
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=NLI0544

The Carnagie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/

The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
http://www.mcmaster.ca/stlhe/index.html

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