• http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/

A new, international, peer-reviewed, open access eJournal entitled International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
(IJ-SoTL) at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/ will be published by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Georgia, USA) with the inaugural issue scheduled for January 2007.  

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is becoming an international movement or momentum for an evidence-based approach to teaching, and may be the best way for both individual faculty, and a campus as a whole, to improve teaching effectiveness by learning more about how students learn in significant, enduring ways and how to teach for such learning.  The Center for Excellence in Teaching seeks to encourage campus conversations about teaching, learning, research and SoTL and supports the work of faculty engaging in formal and informal inquiries and research into the learning of their students.

The Editorial Review Board is world-class and international in scope. The inaugural issue will contain research articles, essays, personal reflections, and invited essays by Pat Hutchings (Vice President, Carnegie Academy for the Advancement of
Teaching) and Carolin Kreber (University of Edinburgh, UK). The deadline for submissions for the first issue is November 1, 2006.  

IJ-SoTL emphasizes that effective teaching is measured by the qualilty and depth of student learning; that it is a serious intellectual pursuit that requires sustained and complex work; that it can be opened for conversations and collaborations among colleagues; and that it can be evidence-based because of pedagogical research.  

IJ-SoTL has the vision of being the premier international SoTL journal by being an advocate, agent and crucible for international conversations, contacts and work on SoTL.