Educators looking to build community and their skill sets are encouraged to join a fall Faculty Learning Community. FLCs bring together small groups of faculty members at all stages in their careers to learn, explore and co-create new resources around a shared interest.
“Faculty Learning Communities create an opportunity that I think many faculty members imagined would be part of their academic career,” said Jeff Loats, Ph.D., professor of Physics and director of the Center for Teaching, Learning and Design. “Scholars and experts from a variety of fields come together and engage with a common interest, pushing themselves and each other to create something of value that can be shared with others. It is an enriching experience for everyone.”
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New FLCs for 2024-25
How Can I Further Engage My Students in Applying Their Knowledge? An Exploration of Experiential Learning
Fall (one term)
- This FLC is ideal for educators whose courses include experiential-learning components or who are interested in incorporating experiential-learning opportunities in the classroom. Facilitators Ingrid Carter, School of Education and Classroom to Career Hub Faculty Fellow, and Cassie Mullin, experiential-learning program manager for the C2 Hub, will help participants stretch their thinking and engage in rich discussion with colleagues across campus.
Indigenous Knowledge
Fall-spring (academic year)
- Faculty members who are interested in incorporating traditional and indigenous knowledge into an existing course or who have struggled to find culturally relevant resources useful in an academic setting are encouraged to participate. The FLC will focus on the benefits and challenges that faculty members face when trying to integrate traditional indigenous knowledge into existing course curricula or academic research. The FLC will prepare participants to include elements of traditional and indigenous knowledge into courses or research projects and identify reliable sources of information.
Keeping the Design Alive: Fine-tune Your Teaching After Course Changes/Redesign
Fall (one term)
- Faculty members who have recently made significant course changes are invited to engage in a reflective practice group to deepen their teaching practice. This FLC is open to all faculty members but may be especially valuable for educators who have recently completed either the Association of College and University Educators certification or a course-development project with the Instructional Design Group and will be teaching related courses this fall. Guiding questions and small-group discussions will allow participants to informally discuss how things are going in their courses, share successes, remain intentional and brainstorm ideas about emerging issues.
Focused Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faculty Learning Communities
The CTLD is recruiting facilitators and participants for SoTL FLCs in the 2024-25 academic year.
These small learning communities focus on scholarly exploration of a specific teaching-and-learning topic or question. Members commit to working together across two to three semesters to conduct a SoTL study or create a piece of SoTL scholarship.
Facilitators are needed to lead a scholarship project around:
- Crafting Assessments in the Age of AI
- Setting Appropriate and Equitable Boundaries With Students
- Student Engagement in Asynchronous Courses
- [Some other proposed idea!]
Interested? View the Call for SoTL FLC Facilitators 2024 and contact Bridget Arend to demonstrate interest or suggest a project.