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Subject: Call for Manuscripts: Web-based Teaching and Learning
Call for Manuscripts: Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
Special Issue: Web-Based Teaching and Learning
Deadline: January 7, 2003
Manuscripts are solicited for publication in the Journal on Excellence
in College Teaching on the theme of Web-Based Teaching and Learning. The
Journal is a peer-reviewed journal published 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.
Background
Web-based teaching and learning environments in higher education are
expanding rapidly. The design, development, and implementation of these
environments and the modified roles that faculty members play within
them challenge anyone who steps into this new virtual arena. These new
demands leave gaps in our shared understandings about teaching and
learning and raise more questions than answers.
This issue of the Journal (http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/) will be devoted
to sharing the scholarship of online teaching and learning. By the
"scholarship of teaching and learning," we are speaking of the
individual or shared intellectual journeys that take one from conception
to reflection, from question to solution, and even back again to
reframing one's questions. Of special interest are manuscripts by those
educators who have several years of experience teaching in the online
environment and who have crafted changes in the ways they interact with
students, envision their own roles, engage students in working with
dynamic content, guide students into critical thinking, assess students'
learning, and use student feedback to reshape the learning environment.
Additionally, we invite those with substantial experience in Web-based
environments to chart the series of questions that have propelled their
scholarship. Manuscripts should be anchored in the literature about
effective teaching and learning, in data that you have collected in your
attempts to understand and improve student learning, and in empirical
knowledge from prior research addressing Web-based teaching and
learning.
Much is to be learned from sharing stories and journeys of discovery
with colleagues; we learn even more when we share our frameworks for
analysis, our criteria for success, and our reflective processes. When
we engage in critical reflection and analysis, reexamine our
assumptions, and confront the "theories in use" that we employ, we also
can document a valuable strategy for acquiring new competencies. When we
hear authentic voices disclose the complexities of learning to teach in
today's digital world, we shall come away inspired.
This issue will seek to promote new understandings of and insights into
teaching on the Web and will provide a stepping stone toward emergent
theory and practice.
Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
Content
Accepted for publication are papers on college and university teaching
that demonstrate -scholarly excellence in at least one of the following
categories:
Research: Reports important results from own experience or research;
describes problem clearly; provides baseline data; explains what
researcher has done and why; and provides results.
Integration: Integrates research of others in meaningful way; compares
or contrasts theories; critiques results; and/or provides context for
future exploration.
Innovation: Proposes innovation of theory, approach, or process of
teaching; provides original and creative ideas based on results of
research by self or others; and outlines proposed strategy for testing
effectiveness of ideas.
Inspiration: Provides inspiration for teaching excellence; combines
personal values, insight, and experience to communicate enthusiasm and
dedication to outstanding teaching.
Papers appearing in the Journal may be interdisciplinary or specific to
one or a group of disciplines, and may address a general or specific
audience.
Review Process
Manuscripts are reviewed first by the editorial staff. Those that are
appropriate for the Journal are sent to at least two experts in teaching
scholarship, particularly in the writer's discipline or subject area.
All reviews are "blind," that is, without identifying the author(s) to
the reviewers. Reviewers are encouraged to write comments for the
author(s). Editorial feedback and/or reviews are provided to authors for
all manuscripts.
Articles may be rejected or accepted outright, or accepted with a
request for revision. In some cases, articles requiring major revision
(such as including an additional year's results) are not officially
accepted or rejected, but will be reconsidered when revised.
Submission Requirements
Submit to the Managing Editor three copies of the Cover Sheet (see
http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/), three copies of your complete manuscript,
and three "blind" copies of the manuscript that omit your name and any
reference to your institution. Indicate two or three key words for the
manuscript that will be used for indexing. Mail your submission to:
Gregg Wentzell
Managing Editor
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
Office for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
If you have any questions, please contact the Managing Editor at (513)
529-7224 or at
wentzegw@muohio.edu. Thank you for your interest in and
support for the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
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Peter E. Doolittle
Program Leader, Educational Psychology Program
Department of Teaching & Learning (0313)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
email:
pdoo@vt.edu
http://edpsychserver.ed.vt.edu/
Educational Psychology Program
http://www.tandl.vt.edu/edpsych