JOURNALS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING
Active Learning in Higher Education
Frequency: two issues a year
Publisher. Sage. UK (http://www.sagepub.co.uk)
Scope: "all aspects of developments, innovations and good practice
in higher education teaching and learning worldwide"
Refereed: yes
Canadian Journal of Higher Education
Frequency: three issues a year
Publisher: Canadian Association for the Study of Higher Education
(csshe@ccumanitoba.ca)
Scope: mostly empirical research studies on various aspects of
Canadian higher education, including teaching and learning
issues
Refereed: yes
College Teaching
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Heldref Publications, 1319 Eighteenth Street,
Washington, DC 20036-1802, USA
Scope: short articles on a wide range of teaching and learning
issues and methods
Refereed: no
Higher Education
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Kluwer (http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0018-1560/contents)
Scope: long-established international scholarly journal with an
emphasis on empirical studies of teaching and learning in higher
education
Refereed: yes
Higher Education Research and Development
Frequency: three issues a year
Publisher: Higher Education Research and Development Association
of Australasia (HERDSA) (http://www.herdsa.org.au/journal.html)
Scope: scholarly international papers on teaching and learning in
higher education, with a preference for empirical studies
Refereed: yes
Innovations in Education and Training International
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Kogan Page on behalf of The Staff and Educational
Development Association (http://www.seda.demon.co.uk/pubsmenu.html)
Scope: short papers on innovations in higher education world-wide,
with an emphais on cases and methods relating to educational
technology
Refereed: yes
Innovative Higher Education
Frequency: four Issues a year
Publisher: Kluwer (http://www.kluweronline.nl)
Scope: a US-based journal that aims to present "fresh ideas in
higher education in a straightforward and readable
fashion¬"
Refereed: yes
Journal of Higher Education
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Ohio State University Press (http://www.ohiostatepress.org/Journals/JHE/jhemain.htm)
Scope: the leading scholarly journal in the field of higher
education, including teaching, learning and educational development
issues
Refereed: yes
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
Frequency: three issues a year
Publisher: Miami University, Oxford Ohio (http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/about/msindex.html)
Scope: papers on teaching and learning in higher education,
including empirical studies, conceptual discussions, and case
studies
Refereed: yes
Quality in Higher Education
Frequency: three issues a year
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, England (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13538322.html)
Scope: mainly empirical studies of evaluation and quality issues,
including quality of teaching and learning
Refereed: yes
Review of Higher Education
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, on behalf of the
Association for the Study of Higher Education (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/review_of_higher_education/)
Scope: wide range of issues in higher education, including
historical, political, and sociological perspectives; some papers
deal with teaching and learning issues
Refereed: yes
Studies in Higher Education
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, England, on behalf of the Society
for Research into Higher Education (http://www.tandf.co.uk/joumals/carfax/03075079.html)
Scope: leading British journal for a wide range of issues in
higher education, but with a particular focus on teaching and
learning; publishes empirical and conceptual papers as well as case
studies
Refereed: yes
Teaching in Higher Education
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, England (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13562517.html)
Scope: papers on teaching, learning, curriculum and educational
development, including empirical and conceptual papers as well as
case studies
Refereed: yes
DISCIPLINE-BASED JOURNALS
Nearly all the major disciplines and professions have one
or more journals that focus on teaching, learning, educational
development and curriculum issues in that discipline. There are too
many journals to list here, but a good overview is provided by
Maryellen Weimer in her article "The disciplinary journals on
pedagogy" that appeared in Change, November/December 1993, pp.
44-51.
JOURNALS ON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A number of the journals listed above include some papers
on educational and faculty development, though that is not their
main focus. In addition there are two international journals that
are devoted to educational development issues.
International Journal for Academic Development
Frequency: two issues a year
Publisher: Taylor and Francis, England, on behalf of the
International Consortium for Educational Development (http://www.tandf.co.uk/joumals/routledge/1360144X.html)
Scope: papers on any aspect of academic development in higher
education, including empirical and conceptual papers as well as
case studies
Refereed: yes
Journal of Faculty Development
Frequency: four issues a year
Publisher: New Forums Press, Stillwater, Oklahoma (http://www.newforums.com/)
Scope: this is the new title for the former Journal of Staff,
Program, and Organization Development and publishes short, mostly
practical articles on educational development
Refereed: yes (by editorial board)
Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development
Frequency: three issues a year
Publisher: New Forums Press, Stillwater, Oklahoma (http://www.newforums.com/)
Scope: short, mostly practical articles on educational development
for teaching assistants
Refereed: no
Staff and Educational Development International
Frequency: three issues a year
Publisher: Aravali Books International, New Delhi on behalf of the
Network for Staff and Educational Development (spanda@ignou.ac.in)
Scope: an eclectic Indian-based journal that publishes many
different types of paper on all aspects of educational development
in higher education; although many papers are from Indian
universities, international submissions are welcomed
Refereed: yes
MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, AND NEWSPAPERS
Chronicle of Higher Education
Frequency: weekly newspaper
Publisher: Independent commercial company based in Marion, Ohio
(http://chronicle.com/)
Scope: in addition to news about higher education in the USA and
elsewhere, the paper accepts contributed articles, including
opinion pieces on teaching and learning issues; the Chronicle also
has special sections on educational technology and distance
education
Refereed: no
Change
Frequency: bi-monthly periodical
Publisher: Heldref Publications on behalf of the American
Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC (http://www.aahe.org/change/)
Scope: Change calls itself "the magazine of higher learning" and
publishes a wide range of articles on teaching, learning,
educational development and curriculum issues, including
descriptions of empirical research, case studies of teaching
innovations, and discussions of organisational and policy
issues
Refereed: no
Times Higher Education Supplement
Frequency: weekly newspaper
Publisher: Times of London (http://www.thes.co.uk/main.asp)
Scope: in addition to news about higher education in Britain and
elsewhere, the paper accepts many contributed articles, including
articles on teaching and learning issues
Refereed: no
NEWSLETTERS
There are many hundreds of newsletters relating to
teaching and learning in higher education, many of them published
by educational development centres. Many accept short submissions
from faculty at the local institution, but not usually from
outsiders. There are also several commercial newsletters, such as
the well-known, Teaching Professor, published by
Magna and edited by Maryellen Weimer. Most accept outside
submissions only rarely, but one that welcomes contributions is the
National Teaching and Learning Forum, edited by
James Rhem, and published Oryx Press, of Westport Connecticut (http://www.ntlf.com). And STLHE has its
own newsletter, Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education, which welcomes contributions from members.
Newsletter submissions are generally not refereed.
WEB PUBLICATIONS
Many of the publications listed above are available
electronically in on-line versions, but access is usually
restricted to paid subscribers. There are also some publications
that exist exclusively in on-line versions. One example is
Positive Pedagogy sponsored by the 3M Teaching
Fellows and edited by Ron Sheese, Alan Slavin, and Barry Joe (http://www.mcmaster.ca/learning/posped/index.html).
The journal is refereed and accepts submissions, articles, and
commentaries dealing with "innovative, successful and otherwise
noteworthy practices in Canadian postsecondary education".
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Hundreds of books appear each year that deal with every
conceivable aspect of teaching and learning in higher education.
Most are issued by commercial publishing houses based In Britain
and the USA. A very broad classification would include
Guidebooks and Handbooks (such as Teaching Tips by
McKeachie and Associates or Cannon and Newble's Handbook for
Teachers in Colleges and Universities), Monographs
(more conceptually based works that focus on a particular topic,
issue, or method, such as Transformative Learning, by Cranton or
Lifelong Learning in Higher Education, by Knapper and Cropley), and
Edited Works that comprise contributions from
different authors around a common theme, such as Teaching
Improvement Practices by Wright and Associates.
Two edited series are especially worthy of mention because they
have published contributions from a wide range of North American
faculty and educational developers.
To Improve the Academy (http://www.ankerpub.com/books/imp_acad.html)
is an annual collection of articles on instructional, faculty, and
organisational development in higher education, published in
Bolton, Mass. by Anker on behalf of the Professional and
Organizational Network in Higher Education (POD). Generally there
is no specific theme to each volume and submissions are refereed.
New Directions in Teaching and Learning (http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,Tl,00.html)
is a series of quarterly "sourcebooks" published by Jossey-Bass of
San Francisco. Potential editors can make a proposal to the series
editor, Marilla Svinicki, for a collection of short contributions
by different authors around a particular theme. Sourcebooks are
typically around 100 pages in length and recent issues from
Canadian editors have included Fresh Approaches to Teaching
Evaluation (Knapper and Cranton), Scholarship Revisited (Kreber),
and Using Consultants to Improve Teaching (Knapper and
Piccinin).
Worth a special mention is the STLHE's own Green
Guide series of short (40-50 page) practical manuals for
university and college faculty on important teaching and learning
issues (http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/stlhe/gguides.html).
These are not edited collections but monographs written by one or
two authors on a teaching approach or issue, such as Teaching Large
Classes (Gedalof), Active Learning (Cameron), Teaching the Art of
Inquiry (Hudspith and Jenkins), and Feedback: Key to Learning
(Piccinin). Details about making a proposal for a guide can be
obtained from the series editors, Christopher Knapper and Alan
Wright.
Although a large number of publishers issue books on teaching
and learning in higher education from time to time, the following
is a list of those who have a major emphasis on university teaching
and educational development.
Anker Publishing, Bolton, Mass: http://www.ankerpub.com/index.html
A relatively small private publishing house with a list that
includes a number of books on teaching and learning in higher
education on such topics as Communication Skills for Department
Chairs and The Teaching Portfolio.
Jossey-Bass (a division of Wiley), San Francisco: http://www.josseybass.com/
Probably has the largest list of books on teaching and learning
topics of any publisher in the world.
Kogan Page, London, England:
http://www.kogan-page.co.uk/
Large list of books on all aspects of teaching and learning in
higher education.
Magna Publications, Madison, Wisconsin: http://www.magnapubs.com/
Mostly a publisher of newsletters (including the Teaching
Professor, but they also have a small list of books on such topics
as First Steps to Excellence in College Teaching and How Am I
Teaching?
New Forums Press, Stillwater, Oklahoma: http://www.newforums.com/
Mainly a journal publisher, but has a small list of books on
teaching and learning, for example Cooperative Learning and
Classrooms without Fear.
Open University Press, Buckingham, England, on behalf of the
Society for Research into Higher Education: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/publicns.htm#SRHEandOpen
SRHE Open University Press has a large list of scholarly books on
many aspects of higher education. Examples of teaching and learning
titles include Assessment Matters in Higher Education and Learning
to Effect.
Sage Publications, London, England, and Newbury Park,
California: http://www.sagepub.com/
Higher education is not the primary focus of this very large
conglomerate, but their new series "Survival Skills for Scholars"
has a quite extensive list of titles related to teaching and
learning issues, including such topics as Confronting Diversity
Issues on Campus, and Improving your Classroom Teaching.
© Christopher Knapper and Alan Wright, 2004
This document was written by Christoffer Knapper and Alan Wright
in June 2004. The authors are not responsible for keeping the
document up to date.