I am one who is keen on the Scholarhship of Teaching Learning which has been defined by Lee Shulman as "a public account of the full act of teaching – vision, design, enactment, outcomes and analysis” and Ernest Boyer as being "based on the premise that the purpose of teaching is to advance student learning, and the purpose of SoTL is to improve the practice of teaching through scholarly inquiry into teaching and student learning.”
To that end, there is an online journal that is free to those who have an interest in doing research on your teaching or reading the research of others to get ideas for your classes or labs, known as the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. You can also submit articles that are based on the research you have done on your teaching to be reviewed for publication to this e-journal. According to their website, the journal "provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, administrators, researchers, and students who are interested in improving post-secondary instruction. The IJTLHE provides broad coverage of higher education pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) across diverse content areas, educational institutions, and levels of instructional expertise. The specific emphasis of IJTLHE is the dissemination of knowledge for improving higher education pedagogy. Electronic distribution of IJTLHE maximizes global availability."
You can access the Volume 19, Number 3 by visiting:
http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/current.cfm
One article you might find of particular use is, "What the Best College Teachers Do" by Laura Levi Altstaedter, from Virginia Tech, United States at:
http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE398.pdf
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