The editors of this refereed website seek research produced by UD faculty and staff that investigates the scholarship of learning and teaching.  The editors are particularly interested in essays or reports that address these or related issues: 

• innovative classroom practices across the curriculum

• innovative assessment practices across the curriculum

• how to design successful collaborative research and/or teaching projects

• how students learn to become members of our various disciplines

• how research influences teaching

• how the academy defines “teaching,” “learning,” or “research”

• how faculty and staff successfully balance the demands of teaching and research

• how faculty and staff engage in successful professional development

The Website’s Mission

• to promote, support, and facilitate research and publication activities of faculty and staff related to pedagogy and the scholarship of learning and teaching

• to encourage campus discussions of issues central to the scholarship of learning and teaching

• to help improve the quality of instruction offered in classes across the curriculum

• to help faculty and staff gain a fuller understanding of how disciplines other than their own view issues central to the scholarship of learning and teaching

 Why “Working Papers”?

We encourage faculty and staff to submit essays and reports they consider nearly complete.   All submissions will be considered works in progress, working papers the authors intend to revise and submit for publication elsewhere.  Some of the working papers will be posted on the web with the author’s permission.   

What Makes this Website Unique?

• every submission will undergo blind review by experienced UD faculty members

• every submission will receive response designed to promote revision

• editors will suggest journals that might be interested in publishing the piece

• selected essays will be posted on the publication’s web site with the author’s permission

Submission Guidelines

• All work must be authored or co-authored by University of Dayton faculty or staff.

• Submissions are limited to previously unpublished work.

• Submissions must address issues of pedagogy or the scholarship of learning and teaching.  Submissions that do not address these areas of study will be returned to the author.

• All papers must be double-spaced and all pages should be numbered.  Authors should follow documentation practices commonly accepted in their discipline.

• All work must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes the author’s name, department, telephone number, and email address.  The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript.

• All submitted papers will undergo blind review by the website’s editors.  All papers will receive critical commentary.  Editors will also suggest print or electronic publications that might be interested in reading the piece.

• With the author’s permission, selected papers will be posted online at The LTC Working Papers on the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching.  The author retains all rights to all posted pieces.

Submission deadline: May 31, 2005

Papers should be submitted electronically as a Word document to

 Stephen.Wilhoit@notes.udayton.edu

For more information, contact

 Stephen Wilhoit, editor

      The LTC Working Papers on the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching

      Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center, +1302

229-5317

Submission Guidelines