Guides: Scholarship of Teaching &amp; Learning: Selected Journals

Selected journals

Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
the official, trans-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, electronic publication of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching (CELT)
CELT publishes peer-reviewed scholarly and practice-based articles associated with the annual conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).
InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching
InSight emphasizes the enhancement of post-secondary education through the professional exchange of scholarly approaches and perspectives applicable to the enrichment of teaching and learning.
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Not affiliated with ISSOTL, IJ-SoTL is an international, peer-reviewed, open access eJournal that is published by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Georgia, USA).
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Designed to encourage all instructors to engage in the discussion of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and to become involved in the sharing of knowledge and learning about the teaching-learning process.
Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal
ISSOTL's official and only journal, TLI publishes insightful research, theory, commentary, and other scholarly works that document or facilitate investigations of teaching and learning in higher education.
Teaching in Higher Education
An international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that addresses the roles of teaching, learning and the curriculum in higher education in order to explore and clarify the intellectual challenges which they present. The journal aims to open up discussion across subject areas by involving all those who share an enthusiasm for learning and teaching.

Below you will find an assortment of suggested resources for SoTL.

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Active Learning in Higher Education
Has an objective of improving the status of teaching and learning support as professional activity and embraces academic practice across all curriculum areas in higher education.
Arts & Humanities in Higher Education
Publishes articles, reviews and scholarly comment relating to the arts and humanities in higher education.
ASHE Higher Education Report
Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education problem, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Noted practitioners and scholars write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
Canadian Journal of Higher Education
Intends to publish manuscripts on topics that address and are relevant to the Canadian higher education system and its structures, processes, and community; and to promote research with international and comparative dimensions in relation to Canadian higher education.
Chronicle of Higher Education
Newspaper and website on academic affairs in the United States.
Excellence in Higher Education
The first English language academic journal in the field of higher education in Indonesia. Encourages diverse points of view with international perspectives.
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research
Recognized as the leading international journal on higher education studies, this publication examines educational developments throughout the world.
Higher Education Quarterly
Publishes international articles concerned with policy, strategic management and ideas in higher education.
Higher Education Research & Development
Informs and challenges researchers, teachers, administrators, policy-makers and others concerned with the past, present and future of higher education.
International Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education
Provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, administrators, researchers, and students who are interested in improving post-secondary instruction.
Journal of Higher Education
Articles combine disciplinary methods with critical insight to investigate issues important to faculty, administrators, and program managers.
Journal of Learning & Development in Higher Education
Learning Development is a field of practice concerned with how students learn and how they make sense of academic conventions.
Journal of Professional, Continuing, and Online Education
As an international journal supported by the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education.
Review of Higher Education
Provides a forum for discussion of varied issues affecting higher education.
Studies in Higher Education
A leading international journal publishing research-based articles dealing with higher education issues from either a disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspective.

College Teaching An interdisciplinary forum on issues related to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This journal is interested in articles that explore: (1) aims and outcomes of teaching philosophy and practices that have significance beyond a specific discipline, including teaching of techniques, new classroom procedures, evaluations of innovative programs, and examination of contemporary developments; (2) teachers' roles, education, professional development, preparation to teach, and evaluation; and (3) incentives that encourage good teaching and ways good teaching is evaluated and rewarded.
Currents in Teaching & Learning a peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the disciplines. Published twice a year, Currents seeks to improve teaching and learning in higher education with short reports on classroom practices as well as longer research, theoretical, or conceptual articles, and explorations of issues and challenges facing teachers today.
Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education The journal seeks to explore innovations which impact on student learning, and to share effective practice across different contexts. It aims to enhance the student experience of learning by an engaged commitment to the student voice. Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education thus has a unique mission. It aims to bring together a developing body of pedagogic research investigating the theories and practices associated with learning opportunities (in their broadest interpretation) in HE, with an emerging interest in the learner experience as elicited through the student voice.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching & Learning The IJTL is designed to provide opportunities for divergent ideas, views, and opinions on various topics and issues from professionals in diverse disciplines and professional arenas. It strives to be highly interdisciplinary in content that is likely to be of interest to teachers, principals, other school administrators, policymakers, graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, and academicians.
International Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, administrators, researchers, and students who are interested in improving post-secondary instruction. The IJTLHE provides broad coverage of higher education pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) across diverse content areas, educational institutions, and levels of instructional expertise. The specific emphasis of IJTLHE is the dissemination of knowledge for improving higher education pedagogy. Electronic distribution of IJTLHE maximizes global availability.
Journal of College Teaching & Learning The TLC publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of all aspects of teaching and learning issues and related fields. Using a wide range of research methods including statistical analysis, analytical work, case studies, field research and historical analysis, articles examine significant research questions from a broad range of perspectives. The intent of TLC is to publish papers that significantly contribute to the knowledge of college teaching & learning.
Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education The Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education (previously the Journal of Effective Teaching) is an electronic journal devoted to the exchange of ideas and information about undergraduate and graduate teaching. Articles are solicited for publication which address excellence in teaching at colleges and universities. We invite contributors to share their insights in pedagogy, innovations in teaching and learning, and classroom experiences in the form of a scholarly communication which will be reviewed by experts in teaching scholarship. Articles which draw upon specific-discipline based research or teaching practices should elaborate on how the teaching practice, research or findings relates across the disciplines.
Journal of Experiential Education The JEE provides a forum for the empirical and theoretical study of issues concerning experiential learning, program management and policies, educational, developmental, and health outcomes, teaching and facilitation, and research methodology.
Journal of Learning & Development in Higher Education
Journal of Learning Design The Journal of Learning Design is a peer reviewed open-access multidisciplinary forum. Its focus is on the systematic study and investigation of pedagogy and learning design in higher education, with a focus on the innovative use of technology. The scope is unlimited in terms of discipline areas addressed and in technologies investigated.
Journal of the Learning Sciences JLS provides a multidisciplinary forum for research on education and learning that informs theories of how people learn and the design of learning environments. It publishes research that elucidates processes of learning, and the ways in which technologies, instructional practices, and learning environments can be designed to support learning in different contexts.
Teaching in Higher Education An international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that addresses the roles of teaching, learning and the curriculum in higher education in order to explore and clarify the intellectual challenges which they present. The journal aims to open up discussion across subject areas by involving all those who share an enthusiasm for learning and teaching.
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching & Learning Journal TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary intellectual debate and inquiry, exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Cambridge Journal of Education Cambridge Journal of Education publishes original refereed articles on all aspects of education, with a particular emphasis on work that contributes to a shared understanding amongst academic researchers, theorists, practising teachers, policy-makers and educational administrators. The journal also welcomes the submission of systematic review articles that summarise and offer new insights into specific areas of educational concern.
Comparative Education Comparative Education is an international peer-reviewed research journal which, since its inception in 1964, has significantly contributed to the growing importance of comparative perspectives in the analysis of educational issues in national, international, and global contexts at all levels/sectors.
Curriculum inquiry CI is a leading international journal in the field of curriculum studies. It is dedicated to studies of educational experience in schools, communities, families, and other local or transnational settings, using a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. CI brings together the work of both established and emerging scholars from a variety of academic fields and disciplines who theorize and examine curriculum and pedagogy, broadly defined, and whose work promotes conceptual debate and pushes beyond current understandings of educational research, theory, and practice.
Educational Researcher ER publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines. Published nine times a year, ER aims to make major programmatic research and new findings of broad importance widely accessible.
Harvard Educational Review The Harvard Educational Review is a scholarly journal of opinion and research in education. Its mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and debate about education's most vital issues. Since its founding in 1930, the Review has become one of the most prestigious journals in education, with circulation to policymakers, researchers, administrators, and teachers.
International Journal for Academic Development IJAD is the journal of the International Consortium for Educational Development. The purpose of IJAD is to enable academic/educational/faculty developers in higher education across the world to exchange ideas about practice and extend the theory of educational development, with the goal of improving the quality of higher education internationally.
Mind, Brain, and Education Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) provides a forum for the scholarly communication of basic and applied research on learning and development, including analyses from biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and education.
Review of Educational Research The Review of Educational Research (RER) publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field broadly relevant to education and educational research.

British Journal of Educational Technology BJET is a primary source for academics and professionals in the fields of digital educational and training technology throughout the world. It publishes theoretical perspectives, methodological developments and high quality empirical research that demonstrate whether and how applications of instructional/educational technology systems, networks, tools and resources lead to improvements in formal and non-formal education at all levels, from early years through to higher, technical and vocational education, professional development and corporate training.
Canadian Journal of Learning Technology The Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology is a peer-reviewed journal that welcomes papers on all aspects of educational technology and learning. Topics may include, but are not limited to: learning theory and technology, cognition and technology, instructional design theory and application, online learning, computer applications in education, simulations and gaming, and other aspects of the use of technology in the learning process. Manuscripts may be submitted either in English or in French. There is no charge or fee to authors for article submission or processing.
Computers & Education Computers & Education aims to increase knowledge and understanding of ways in which digital technology can enhance education, through the publication of high quality research, which extends theory and practice.
Educational Technology Research & Development Educational Technology Research and Development is the only scholarly journal in the field focusing entirely on research and development in educational technology.
Electronic Journal of E-learning EJEL provides perspectives on topics relevant to the study, implementation and management of e-Learning initiatives. The journal contributes to the development of both theory and practice in the field of e-Learning. The Editorial team consider academically robust papers and welcome empirical research, case studies, action research, theoretical discussions, literature reviews and other work which advances learning in this field. All papers are double-blind peer reviewed.
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning is a refereed, open access e-journal that disseminates original research, theory, and best practice in open and distributed learning worldwide.
The Internet & Higher Education The Internet and Higher Education, a is quarterly journal devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to online learning, teaching, and administration on the Internet in post-secondary settings. It is a peer-reviewed journal intended to be a vehicle for scholarly presentation and dissemination of contributions, theoretical and applied, significantly addressing innovative deployments of Internet technology in instruction and reporting on research to demonstrate the effects of the Internet and information technology (IT) on instruction in various contexts in higher education.
Journal of Online Learning & Teaching JOLT is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication that aims to promote scholarship in the use of the Internet and web-based multimedia resources in higher education.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy Kairos is a refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance, and E-Learning Open Learning a leading international journal in the field of open, flexible and distance learning. The Journal is widely subscribed to and read throughout the world by those in specialist distance education institutions, and also by those using distance, flexible and technology based forms of learning in conventional education and training contexts.

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