ABSTRACT
“Visibility” is a key value and challenge for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Somehow, teaching must be made visible to colleagues if it is to enter a community of scholars who can provide constructive critique and evaluation and build upon it in their own pedagogical work. One of the most compelling arguments for a role for the new media in the scholarship of teaching and learning concerns the fact that there are aspects of teaching and learning that are simply hard to represent well in print. New media also offer unprecedented opportunities to interact around issues in teaching and learning and to form communities of varying spread. Randy Bass cited his own experience to make the point. Like many other faculty who have redesigned courses to incorporate new pedagogies, Bass’s first attempt to intensify the use of technology in his own teaching was not very successful, and his student ratings fell.
