Deadlines:
April 15 (acceptance notification May 15); Oct. 15 (acceptance notification Nov. 15).

By Lori Carrell, communication education professor and SoTL coordinator

Looking for a journal in which to publish your research about teaching and learning? The UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development has decided to again publish teaching and learning research in a journal titled Teaching Forum. I am the editor of this new version of the journal, which will be published in an online format twice a year. My advisory board of colleagues from other UW institutions has formulated vision, mission and goals statements.

Vision

Teaching Forum will provide a venue for peer-reviewed publication of exemplary “scholarship of teaching and learning” work, serving as an aggressive change agent to demonstrate the scholarly nature and applied value of SoTL in higher education.

Mission

Teaching Forum will serve the purpose of connecting teaching and learning scholars across local campuses and disciplinary boundaries.

Goals

• Provide information about teaching and learning activities, initiatives, successes and projects across the UW System.
• Create a peer-reviewed publication for faculty working on SoTL projects.
• Disseminate the ongoing work of some of our best and brightest scholars in order to advance the practice of teaching and learning.
• Make others aware of the SoTL initiative and other teaching and learning issues.
• Create an online venue for disseminating the work of Wisconsin faculty to a national audience.
• Create a venue for disseminating the work of Wisconsin faculty and the SoTL initiative to an internal audience of faculty, staff and administration.

Teaching Forum invites the following kinds of work:

• SoTL research articles: Full-length research articles documenting scholarship of teaching and learning.
• "SoTL Under Review": Book reviews of SoTL publications (1,000 words or less). Contact the editor with questions regarding appropriate books to be reviewed. The editor may invite book reviews.
• "SoTL Updates": Campus reports on current SoTL initiatives (500 words or less). SoTL representatives from each campus will be asked to submit these updates.
• "SoTL Applied": This best practices section describes teaching activities emanating from SoTL work (1,500 words or less).

Research article guidelines

Manuscript submissions should include a cover letter that confirms and specifies the following:

• The manuscript is original work and is not under consideration by any other publication venue.
• Author identification information is provided for all authors, including name, rank and institution.
• Indicate whether the manuscript has been presented as a conference paper.
• The author has followed all IRB guidelines for informed consent from participants.
• In addition, author identification should not be detectable in the manuscript. Three printed copies of the manuscript should be submitted for review, as well as an electronic copy in Word format. American Psychological Association Style, 5th edition (2001) should be used. A cover page with title, article type (research or applied) and word count should be included with the cover letter and article.

"SoTL Applied" article guidelines

These submissions should describe instructional activities that can be used in a postsecondary classroom and are connected to scholarly work on teaching and learning. "SoTL Applied" manuscript submissions should include a cover letter that follows the same guidelines as research articles. Each submission should contain the following components:

• Title.
• Course for which the activity was developed.
• Instructional objective of the activity.
• Summary of SoTL research from which the activity emanates (theoretical rationale for the activity).
• Directions for the activity.
• Evaluation of the activity, including suggestions for further SoTL research questions.

Send submissions or questions to Lori Carrell, editor, Teaching Forum, Faculty Development Office, UW Oshkosh, 800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI 54901. E-mail: carrell@uwosh.edu. Phone: 424-3220.