InSight:
A Journal of Scholarly Teaching is a scholarly publication designed
to highlight the work of postsecondary faculty at colleges and universities
across the United States. It is a refereed scholarly journal published
annually by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
at Park University that features theoretical and empirically-based research
articles, critical reflection pieces, case studies and classroom innovations
relevant to teaching, learning and assessment.
InSight
articles focus broadly on Scholarly Teaching and Learning. Faculty
are encouraged to submit original manuscripts that showcase scholarly
teaching and learning processes or critically discuss the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as a scholarship paradigm. While reports
of SoTL projects are welcome and encouraged, InSight is also committed
to continuing broader conversations about SoTL's value as a tool for advancing
student learning and demonstrating faculty commitment to teaching.
Faculty
are encouraged to submit manuscripts related to: |
- Examples of scholarly teaching/learnning
projects at the course or discipline-level
- Innovative teaching, learning
or assessment activities with documented effectiveness
- Challenges/responses to
the scholarly teaching and learning
- Developing institution or
discipline-specific understandings/definitions of SoTL
- Status reports of SoTL's
role in a particular discipline
- Guidance to faculty new
to SoTL (on developing inquiry questions, determining methodologies,
making SoTL work public, etc.)
- Intersections of SoTL and
service-learning, eLearning, learning communities, and other learning
initiatives
- Future directions in SoTL
- Cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional
collaborations for promoting SoTL
Submission
Requirements: |
- STYLE
- All manuscripts must be formatted in either APA or MLA style.
- LENGTH
- Manuscript should be no more than 10 pages (not including abstract,
references or appendices). Authors are encouraged to include appendices
that promote application and integration of materials (i.e., assignments,
rubrics, examples, etc.).
- ABSTRACT
- Each manuscript must be summarized in an abstract of 50 to 100 words.
- AUTHOR
- Each author should provide his/her full name, title and departmental
affiliation, campus address, telephone number, and email address. Each
author must also include a brief biography (no more than 50 words per
author).
- FORMAT
- All manuscripts must be submitted via email as attachments in Microsoft
Word or Rich Text Format. Do not include personal identifiers within
the manuscript. Include contact information only on a separate cover
sheet. Each manuscript will be assigned a unique identifier for blind
review processes. Send submissions to cetl@park.edu.
- DEADLINE
- Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. To be considered for
inclusion in Volume 4, submissions must be received by 4:00pm on March 12, 2010 (CST).
Review Procedures:
Submissions will be subject to a double blind peer-review. A manuscript
is evaluated based on relevance, practical utility, originality, generalizability,
clarity, significance and the extent to which the subject matter contributes
to the ongoing development of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Review process and publication decisions will require approximately 12
weeks. Referees’ feedback and editorial comments will be provided
to the author when revisions are requested. If accepted, final versions
of manuscripts will be due June 30, 2009. CETL retains the final authority
to accept or reject all submitted manuscripts. The publication will be
distributed both in print and online in August 2010.
Copyright:
Manuscript submissions are accepted with the assumption that they neither
have been nor will be published elsewhere. Authors and CETL will hold
joint copyright to all published manuscripts.
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