News: Credit for Teaching – Inside Higher Ed.

http://trails.asanet.org/Pages/default.aspx

This is an interesting initiative to peer review and share teaching materials in sociology. Especially in the field of ESP, there is a lack of ways to share quality teaching materials and for faculty to get some credit for them. There is too much emphasis on publishing papers that may only have a limited impact in a field when there would be a much wider audience for quality teaching. The materials must not only be peer reviewed but the authors have to provide evidence of effectiveness–making it more like an action research project.