Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 20, Number 3

Some 20 years after the Carnegie Foundation brought the scholarship of teaching to prominence, the debate over its definition continues. Ironically, many academics who pride themselves on their disciplinary research do not look at their teaching from the same scholarly viewpoint. But to dismiss teaching scholarship is to lose the opportunity to gather and learn from evidence about "what works." Scholarly teaching engages instructors as part of a community of teacher-scholars dedicated to improving learning for the benefit of students, teachers, and higher education as a whole.