International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Authors are requested to follow the IJ-SoTL guidelines for the submission of manuscripts for each year's January and July issues. Authors are also invited to become familiar with the editorial review process. Because SoTL is multi- and trans-disciplinary, and encompasses any teaching methods in their potential connections to improved student learning outcomes, IJ-SoTL is open to people from any discipline, field, program and is open to research on any pedagogical methods in any pedagogical contexts, media, and mediums. IJ-SoTL exists to help bring assumptions about teaching and learning into the light and to promote an evidence-based, collegial, public approach to teaching and learning that continuously builds a body of understanding and knowledge that is open to and for all. In so doing, IJ-SoTL exists to help transform ideas, practices, attitudes and results in higher education, as well as higher education culture itself.

Process

Submissions may be made at any time.
All submissions must be previously unpublished manuscripts and must only be submitted to IJ-SoTL (multiple submissions of a manuscript to more than one publication at a time is not accepted).
All submissions are to be Word documents attached to emails sent to the editor, Alan Altany, at aaltany@georgiasouthern.edu . The email should contain a statement that the manuscript is unpublished and is only being submitted to IJ-SoTL .

Format and Style Guidelines

All submissions are to be in English, while recognizing that IJ-SoTL has an international readership for some of whom English is not their native language. Please avoid using colloquialisms and regional terminology that may be unknown to many.
Use APA format as found in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 5th Edition, for headings, citations, references.
About APA Style/format: http://www.apastyle.org/
APA Citation Style: http://www.liu.edu/cwis/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm
APA Style Workshop: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/apa/index.html
The font is to be 10 point Verdana with the manuscript being single-spaced with a space between each paragraph, and one-inch margins are both sides of the text.
The Title Page should contain the author(s) name, position/affiliation, institution, address, phone number, email address, as well as a 100 – 150 word Abstract and a list of keywords (4 – 6 words). The abstract needs to describe and summarize the project, its purposes, methods, and results. If there are multiple authors, one author should be identified as the contact person.
The author(s) name(s) should not appear in the original submission of the manuscript (except on the Title Page).
The text of a manuscript should be divided in headings (not more than three levels deep).
Tables, Graphs and Illustrations are to be placed at the appropriate places within the body of the text and color may be used in them.
Notes, citations, and suggested sources should be placed at the end of the submission in APA format.
Place page numbers in the upper right hand corner of each page.
Articles in the form of a hypertext document with stabile, relevant and referenced web sites and graphics, as well as a brief list of suggested links for further consideration by readers, are encouraged.
Read through the Note to Authors page for known technical issues.

Length of Submissions

SoTL Articles: 3,000 – 8,000 words
Essays on SoTL: 2,000 – 5,000 words
Personal Reflections/Experiences of SoTL: 1,000 – 1,500 words
Readers' Responses: 300 – 500 words

The deadline for submissions for the July 2012 (V6N2) issue
is May 15, 2012.

Areas for Submissions

SoTL articles are to focus upon a research question or issue in any area of pedagogy and contain the implication, application, and assessment of the findings of that research for teaching and learning in higher education. To be considered for publication, articles must include some form of empirical assessment, for student learning, of the pedagogical effectiveness of the method, approach, technique, etc. under investigation. Articles that simply describe and advocate a method or approach to teaching and learning, but that do not include a research question and the gathering and assessing of evidence for student learning, or that provide only anecdotal support, are not appropriate for IJ-SoTL. The focus of IJ-SoTL articles is the actual doing of original research. Articles will go through a blind review process involving a very strong, international Editorial Review Board..

Essays on SoTL can be on such topics as how SoTL can directly improve student learning outcomes; how SoTL has transformed an academic community/culture; the connections between SoTL and other forms of scholarship; how best to integrate SoTL into higher education today, or into a college or university community; the problems and benefits of international collaboration in doing SoTL and applying the results to college teaching (classroom, online, or in combination); the benefits of SoTL for professional faculty development; SoTL and a shifting of paradigms for teaching and learning; identifying and overcoming obstacles to SoTL; projections about the future for SoTL internationally; SoTL in the faculty reward system; etc. Essays should be insightful, imaginative, evocative, and applicable. Publication decisions will be made by the editor.

Personal reflections about SoTL may discuss how SoTL has affected one's attitude and/or approach to teaching and student learning; how SoTL has changed one's attitude towards the profession of college teaching or an academic career; how SoTL has inspired or re-inspired one's spirit for teaching and working with students; how one has promoted and supported SoTL; one's experience in dealing with resistance to, or misunderstanding of SoTL; etc. Publication decisions will be made by the editor.

Readers' Responses
Critical responses to any IJ-SoTL articles are welcome for possible inclusion in the Readers' "Responses" section of the subsequent issue of IJ-SoTL . Readers are invited to send their responses to any articles as single-spaced, Word documents in 10 pt verdana font to aaltany@georgiasouthern.edu for potential publication in the next issue after the original articles appear. Publication decisions will be made by the editor.

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