You can now check out the Spring 2010 issue of Mountain Rise, Volume 6, Number 1, the international journal for the scholarship of teaching and learning, published by Western Carolina University.
The journal has a new platform – through Open Journal Systems – that gives it a new look and feel. The editors are hoping that the reader's will like the journal’s new features which include interactive features, an electronic reviewing system, and new genres that include book reviews, case studies, and video-enhanced articles.
Articles from the journal are also fully accessible through the Education Database in EBSCO host – as well as through their websitge: http://mountainrise.wcu.edu/
One article I liked in particular in this latest issue was one entitled, When Liking Your Students Empowers Them: A Case Study by Robert Drake of North Carolina A & T State University that found that "many students benefit in a meaningful way when they not only like their professor, but also when they feel that their professor respects and cares about them as both people and as students. These benefits include: greater academic confidence and self-esteem, higher levels of effort and time spent studying, and better grades."
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