Editor's Comments
Volume 5, Number 1
January 2011

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) aspires to be an agent and catalyst for SoTL’s transforming work for a renewed awareness of and attentiveness to teaching and learning, for questioning assumptions and thinking about teaching, and for systematic and effective ways to improve learning and teaching in higher/tertiary education.  IJ-SoTL’s goal is to serve as a crucible or nexus for creating international contacts, conversations, contemplation, and collaborations in connection with SoTL.

notify me by email of new issues Readers can request email notification when each new issue of IJ-SoTL is published by going to: http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/email_notification.htm  

As of the publication of this issue, over 5,363 people from 114 countries have requested email notification about new issues (twice a year). 


In this issue authors are from Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, and the United States. I also want to thank all the authors who submitted manuscripts that were not accepted for publication. I hope the review process and the reviewers' comments have been of benefit to their SoTL work.

This 9th issue of IJ-SoTL is our special 5th Anniversary Issue.


Alan Altany, Editor

P.S. The 4th annual SoTL Commons Conference will be held March 9-11, 2011 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, USA


Keynote speakers
Dr. Jennifer Meta Robinson (Indiana University)
Dr. Richard Gale (Mount Royal University, CA)
Dr. Bill Cerbin (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)