Beyond Best Practices: Taking Seriously the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Would we be moving into the domain of education departments and teacher certification programs that addressed such issues as the relative merits of various classroom technologies, effective construction of multiple-choice tests, and the mysteries of rubric creation, all to serve us better in our quest for efficient "content delivery"? Calder, who teaches history at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, was a 1999 Fellow in the Pew Scholars Program at the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). Directed by Randy Bass of Georgetown University and co-directed by Bret Eynon of LaGuardia Community College, the VKP "aims to improve the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments.