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 Cox is Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at Miami University, where he founded and directs the Lilly Conference on College Teaching, is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, and facilitates the Hesburgh Award-winning Teaching Scholars faculty learning community. Milt also is project director of a FIPSE grant establishing faculty learning community programs on other campuses and is co-editor of the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities. He incorporates the use of cooperative learning, 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.