Milt Cox

Miami University

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Recommendations for Development, Presentation, and Publication

In this session we will examine the new discipline, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and a brief look at its history and new directions. Participants will discuss a definition and examples of SoTL and have an opportunity to consider teaching/learning projects. We will discuss assessment of student learning, resources, and strategies that can enable teaching/learning project development, presentation, and publication, including faculty learning communities. Our focus will be on the Cross and Steadman concept of classroom research.

Biography

Milton D. Cox, PhD, is Consultant to Miami University’s Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment, which he founded and directed in various formats for 30 years. He is also a consultant during 2010-11 for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Xavier University, Ohio. His areas of expertise include faculty and professional learning communities, the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching and learning centers, student cognitive-intellectual development, active/student-centered learning, and communities of practice. He founded and directs the annual International Lilly Conference on College Teaching, now in its 30th year. He is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal. He facilitates the Hesburgh Award-winning Teaching Scholars Faculty Learning Community in its 32nd year.

Milt has been project director of state and federal grants establishing faculty learning community programs at other institutions and is co-editor of the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities. He has worked on site at over 70 institutions to develop faculty and professional learning communities, including the CIA and King Abdulaziz University in Saudia Arabia. He incorporates the use of student learning portfolios and Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences in his mathematics classes. He is recipient of the C. C. MacDuffee Award for distinguished service to Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary, and a certificate of special achievement from the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education in recognition and appreciation of notable contributions to the profession of faculty, instructional, and organizational development