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Cover Photo by Nick Cahill,
"Temple of Hera at Akragas"
courtesy of the Perseus Project
used with permission

inventio is a project of the Division of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies (DoIIIT) at George Mason University.

The journal’s name -- inventio -- is taken from the first of the five arts of classical rhetoric: thinking out the subject, identifying the issue at question, exploring the means of persuasion. We hope that the journal will be a source of just this kind of creative thinking about learning and teaching.

With initial sponsorship from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and New Century College, DoIIIT published a special first issue in February 1999, to focus on the theme -- The Scholarship of Teaching -- part of George Mason’s participation in the Carnegie Foundation’s Teaching Academy program. Invited contributors from the University addressed definitions of the scholarship of teaching and looked at ways that campus practices, policies, and conditions work for or against a scholarship of teaching.

Regular issues, one each semester, feature peer-reviewed articles on instructional research, instructional philosophy, pedagogy, learning theory, and other significant issues related to excellence in learning and teaching. In addition to these feature articles, inventio also includes shorter articles on classroom practice and response and dialog sections about issues raised in the feature articles.

While inventio will focus initially on the George Mason community, its format as a web-based publication will naturally make it available to a wider audience, and DoIIIT hopes to build the publication into a nationally respected journal.