In this book, Maryellen Weimer provides an essential resource for
anyone who is engaged in efforts to improve teaching in higher
education. This comprehensive book draws on a wide array of sources
to help practitioners build on the foundation laid by existing
scholarly work on teaching and learning. Enhancing Scholarly
Work on Teaching and Learning reviews previously published work
on teaching and learning to better guide those engaged in
pedagogical scholarship and to help develop a literature that meets
the needs of faculty.



Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning
includes an analysis of the practitioner literature on teaching and
learning in two main categories--the wisdom of scholarship and
research scholarship. The first category uses the lens of
experience to analyze instructional issues, and the second category
employs more objective frames to assess instructional issues. The
book explores four experiential approaches to teaching and learning
(personal accounts of change, recommended-practices reports,
recommended-content reports, and personal narratives and includes
an analysis of the three most common research methods (quantitative
investigation, qualitative studies, and descriptive research).
Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning also
includes information about other methods in addition to the main
approaches.