Editorial: Connected Scholarship

‘Software and Scholarship’ — Editorial

The thematic focus of this issue is to examine what happens where software and scholarship meet, with particular reference to digital work in the humanities. Despite the some seven decades of its existence, Digital Humanities continues to struggle with the implications, in the academic ecosystem, of its position between engineering and art. The parallel drawn here between software and engineeri...

The editorial process and politicized scholarship: monday morning editorial quarterbacking and a call for scientific vigilance.

The publication of Mark Regnerus’ research paper claiming to show that gays and especially lesbians have poor parenting outcomes has unleashed a firestorm of controversy among social scientists who study family and sexuality—fanned by the author’s cultivation of popular media reporting on the study. Less attention has been paid to the review paper by Loren Marks, arguing against the American Ps...

Guest Editorial: A Practical Approach to Understanding - and Applying! - the Scholarship of Application

A S MANY as 80% of papers published by the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION fall within an area known as the scholarship of application [1].1 Recently, the TRANSACTIONS established a new set of criteria to evaluate manuscripts submitted in this area. This guest editorial is intended to demystify these new criteria and to help writers avoid some common mistakes. The guidelines given here suggest s...

Defining scholarship.

Keeping the Scholarship in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

As the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) increases in recognition for its contributions to teaching and learning in higher education, it also becomes increasingly important that those wishing to make contributions, and whose area of expertise falls outside of the field of education, make themselves aware of how to conduct educational research. In this essay I question what scholarship...