What’s in a name?

Abstract

This is the first issue of AJSoTL, the Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. AJSoTL will remain a journal “to create and nurture a global network of academics and educators….to…discuss ongoing changes and future trends in tertiary education”. Our new name reflects our decision to focus on issues in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and this means an emphasis on research-informed teaching and on explicit pedagogical reflection, as well as documentation of the pedagogical processes that drive classroom activities and student learning outcomes. In short, we hope to improve the quality of teaching and learning, by encouraging fellow teachers to think about, and discuss, issues in a scholarly, i.e. SoTL, way. AJSoTL will facilitate the process by engaging SoTL practitioners to write articles that will both stimulate, and inspire, our teaching endeavours. (Abstract taken from first paragraph of document)