KEEP for Professional Development The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) has four separate programs, all geared toward investigating, documenting and improving teaching based on an understanding of student learning. The Scholars Program brings together faculty from different colleges and universities to investigate and document significant issues in teaching and learning among individual faculty. Although the Carnegie Scholars share their work and build on the knowledge of their peers, they each explore issues particular to students of individual classrooms and faculty. The other programs, including the new Campus Leadership program, engage in the process of building institutional knowledge and encouraging collaboration about student learning and effective teaching. Each of these programs has used the KEEP Toolkit to enable faculty to document and share their knowledge about student learning to understand and, if effective, to change their teaching practices. Much of this communication has happened within a password protected space, allowing faculty to be candid and comfortable about sharing student learning and their own teaching successes and mistakes. Jasmin Lambert's Snapshot documents her study and how an understanding of student learning impacts her teaching.

Cheryl Richardson is a research scholar in the Knowledge Media Lab of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She currently conducts research on the impact of online tools on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a particular approach to improving teaching. She also provides guidance to faculty development projects in the use use of the KEEP Toolkit, a set of web-based tools that help document and share their teaching knowledge. In addition, Richardson works with the Goldman-Carnegie Quest Project to coordinate the creation of an online gallery and portal that will be a resource for novice K-12 teachers, accomplished K-12 teachers, and teacher educators to share and develop teaching practices. Her background includes working with the Visible Knowledge Project, which facilitated Humanities faculty members' incorporation of digital technology for student learning and for use as a way for faculty to "see" student knowledge. Richardson holds a Ph.D. in education and a master's in history from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in history from UCLA.

KEEP on Campus The University of Waterloo is using ePortoflios to encourage students to make connections between their learning experiences in different contexts (academic, workplace and community).

Morgan Cox's portfolio is an example of how one student used the learning in one context to apply it to another

Tracy Penny Light is Instructional Project Manager in the Office of the Associate Vice-President, Learning Resources and Innovation (AVP-LRI) and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of History at the University of Waterloo. She is founding Co-Editor of the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) and Co-Editor of the MERLOT History Editorial Board. She has designed, developed and implemented a number of faculty development and educational technology programs for both high school and higher education internationally. Her current research focuses on the use of electronic portfolios to promote deep learning, helping students to make connections between their learning experiences. Dr. Penny Light holds a Honours Bachelor of Arts (History) from Nipissing University, a Masters of Arts (History) from Laurentian University and a Ph.D. (History) from the University of Waterloo, all in Ontario, Canada.

KEEP for Dissemination of Scholarship MERLOT - the Multimedia Resource for Learning Online and Teaching is a repository of teaching expertise and links sto exemplary online learning resources. MERLOT provides instructors with multiple mechanisms for sharing their expertise, they may: add learning resources to the collection and make them available for peer review annotae the resources with comments and describe assignments create a personal collection - a mini-portfolio that relates one resource to others create a Snapshot using the Keeptoolkit to describe the scholarship and use of this learning resource. Water on the Webis an excellent example of how the author and other faculty have contributed to creating a collaborative teaching portfolio around one online learning resource.

Flora McMartin is a Senior Partner with Broad Based Knowledge (BBK). BBK specializes in assisting colleges and universities in their evaluation of the impact of technology on teaching and learning. It's goal is to aid higher education improve its ability to institutionalize innovation and improve student learning. Previous to her work at BBK she was the MERLOT director for Membership Services and Evaluation. Currently, she is conducting research on how and why faculty do and do not use digital learning materials in the service of learning. Dr. McMartin is also an expert in evaluation of digital libraries and other online digital learning innovations. She has consulted widely with institutions and educational programs around planning, implementing and evaluating innovative educational efforts of many types. Dr. McMartin's received her doctorate in education from the University of California at Berkeley, her Master's in education and bachelor's degree in art from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.