International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is an open, peer-reviewed, international electronic journal published twice a year by the Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship at Georgia Southern University to be an international vehicle for articles, essays, and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education today. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process.

SoTL is a key way to improve teaching effectiveness, student learning outcomes, and the continuous transformation of academic cultures and communities. Through research questions and methodologies applied to teaching and learning, the making public of that research and its results so that it can be analyzed and critiqued, and through the constructing of an available, growing body of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom about the teaching and learning processes and outcomes, college and university teaching is seen as a serious intellectual activity that can be evidence and outcome based.

SoTL is an international momentum or movement. IJ-SoTL seeks to be a virtual SoTL Commons for research articles, invited essays, and reflections about the value, implementation, and development of SoTL in various academic contexts and cultures. The Editorial Review Board of IJ-SoTL is profoundly strong and international in scope, and the goal is for submissions, published papers, and the readership to be truly international. Through email, published responses to articles, and a listserv, IJ-SoTL encourages your participation, questions and comments in order to foster international conversations about SoTL, as well as international collaboration in SoTL.

The bamboo plant is the symbol for IJ-SoTL. It grows around of the world, it grows rapidly, its sections are as steps in the process of growth and awareness, and it always has green shoots and leaves as signs of its vitality. Bamboo has been a symbol for longevity, strength and grace. It bends without breaking while having a tensile strength similar to steel. It has had a great reputation in both ancient and modern civilizations for its effective uses and for taking root in all sorts of climates. Such is SoTL and such is the goal for IJ-SoTL.