Teaching & Learning Journals

General Journals in Teaching and Learning
(for journals focusing on technology and distance learning, click here)

Academic Exchange Quarterly
Provides ideas, research, methods, and pedagogical theories leading to effective instruction and learning regardless of level or subject.

Active Learning in Higher Education
Devoted to all aspects of development, innovation and good practice in higher education, including the use of Communication and Information Technologies (C&IT).

Cognition and Instruction
An interdisciplinary publication devoted to cognitive investigations of instruction and learning.

College Teaching
Cross-disciplinary journal that focuses on teachers can improve student learning through practical classroom strategies.

Creative College Teaching Journal
This journal focuses on teaching and learning. Each journal issue focuses on a single general topic.

Instructional Science
Promote a deeper understanding of the nature, theory and practice of the instructional process and of the learning to which it gives rise. The journal provides a forum for communication among experts from different disciplines.

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
An open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University to be an international vehicle for articles, essays, and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education today.

Inventio
Features peer-reviewed articles on instructional research, instructional philosophy, pedagogy, learning theory, and other significant issues related to excellence in learning and teaching. In addition to these feature articles, Inventio also includes shorter articles on classroom practice and response and dialog sections about issues raised in the feature articles.

Issues of Teaching and Learning
Online journal published by the University of Western Australia Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.

Journal of Classroom Interaction
Devoted to empirical investigations and theoretical papers dealing with observation techniques, research on student and teacher behavior, and other issues relevant to the domain of classroom interaction.

Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning
Publishes articles on the development of teaching practices and programs that promote the connection between emotions and learning.

The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL)
Encourages all instructors to engage in the discussion of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and to become involved in the sharing of knowledge and learning about the teaching-learning process. The Journal provides a publication outlet for research in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and an on-line forum for engagement with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The Journal of Student Centered Learning
Focus is on learning approaches that have strong student centered components (e.g., cooperative learning, collaborative learning, learning communities, problem based learning, project based learning, service learning, case method, peer based learning, paired or grouped courses, adult learning, experiential learning, constructivist learning).

Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students In Transition
Provides current research and scholarship on the first-year now with an expanded focus to include other student transitions. Dedicated to the collegiate success and survival of students in transition, it publishes scholarship about the factors that relate to student success and survival.

Journal of the Learning Sciences
Multidisciplinary forum for the presentation of cognitive research on teaching and learning.

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
Published in Australia, the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed journal publishing papers that add significantly to the body of knowledge describing effective and innovative teaching and learning practice in the higher education environment. The Journal aims to provide a forum for educational practitioners in a wide range of disciplines to communicate their teaching and learning outcomes in a scholarly way. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between journals covering purely academic research and more pragmatic articles and opinions published elsewhere.

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
The Journal provides a scholarly, written forum for discussion by faculty about all areas affecting teaching and learning, and gives faculty the opportunity to share proven, innovative pedagogies and thoughtful, inspirational insights about teaching.

Learning and Individual Differences
Devoted to publishing articles that contribute to an understanding of individual differences within an educational context.

Learning and Instruction
Multi-disciplinary journal that provides a platform for the publication of the research in the areas of learning, development, instruction and teaching.

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LATHE)
Published in the United Kingdom, LATHE is an interdisciplinary refereed journal providing an accessible international forum for scholarly debate related to learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. LATHE aims to serve as an effective dissemination mechanism for pedagogic research and development through the publication of scholarly articles, book reviews and case studies of effective practice. The Editorial Board encourages contributions which promote innovative teaching, learning and assessment approaches that may be considered for adoption or adaptation by academics worldwide.

MountainRise
Peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Coulter Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at Western Carolina University for the purpose of being an international vehicle for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL).

The National Teaching and Learning Forum
The topics in this newsletter embrace a wide diversity of cross-disciplinary concerns on teaching and learning, ranging from the latest findings of cognitive psychology on attention span and their practical implications for teaching to the relevance of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton to the lives of today's more gender-aware and ethnically diverse students.

New Directions for Teaching and Learning
Offers a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and on the latest findings of educational and psychological researchers.

The Peabody Journal of Education
Publishes quarterly symposia in the broad area of education and human development.

Positive Pedagogy
Devoted to the recognition and development of excellence in teaching.

Reaching Through Teaching
Publishes invited essays and peer-reviewed scholarship on teaching. Annually published abstracts from the Georgia Conference on College and University Teaching.

Simulation and Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research
International forum for the study and discussion of simulation/gaming methodology used in education, training, consultation, and research.

Studies in Graduate and Professional Student Development
A peer-reviewed book series designed to provide a platform for the discussion of the research, issues, and programs that address the professional development of graduate and professional students. Areas to be addressed include: Research on teaching, professional development, curricula, assessment and evaluation, training, certification, and career planning and outcomes; Research on effective disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs and workshop designs, implementation and evaluation for teaching and learning; Research on the transition from graduate school to full-time faculty positions; Basic research on teaching and learning.

Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University
Produced at Fort Hays State University, the journal explores the history, present circumstances, and possible future of America's hardest working but least studied institutions of higher learning—Regional State Universities or, to use a more recent and revealing title, State Comprehensive Universities (SCUs). The journal publishes reflective essays that explore the satisfactions and frustrations of careers spent at SCUs, studies of specific topics based on quantitative and/or qualitative research, and articles that focus on application.

Teachers College Record
Journal of research, analysis, and commentary in the field of education.

Teaching in Higher Education
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 Teaching Professor
This newsletter covers a broad range of teaching and learning topics, providing innovative strategies, techniques, and approaches to facilitate learning and reflective analysis of educational issues of concern.

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