The National Teaching and Learning Forum began publication in the fall of 1991 as a joint venture with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. ERIC/HE already published a series of short books reviewing research literature on various higher education topics, and it embraced the idea of The National Teaching and Learning Forum warmly as an extension of its mission.
By 1993 the publication had become big enough and successful enough that it needed a new home. It found one in the Oryx Press which, in 1992, had replaced Macmillan as publisher of the American Council on Education`s Series on Higher Education. Then, in 2000 after 25 years in publishing, Oryx was acquired by the Greenwood Publishing Group, a well-respected publishing company with many imprints and a long history of serving the higher education market.
In its first 12 years, The National Teaching and Learning Forum has achieved critical acclaim and popular success with this approach. The contents range as widely as good conversation. Topics embrace a wide diversity of cross-disciplinary concerns. The Forum`s pages cover the latest findings of cognitive psychology on attention span and their practical implications for teaching. The National Teaching and Learning Forum has quite a number of foreign subscribers. Perhaps that is because the publication has taken an increasingly international perspective. Much valuable research into what actually works well in teaching and learning has been done outside the United States, and the Forum has introduced this important work to many of its American readers.