Developing Faculty and Professional Learning Communities (FLCs) to Transform Campus Culture for Learning

FIPSE Project on Faculty Learning Communities runs a summer workshop and has an entire issue of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Building Faculty Learning Communities that explains the process.

"A faculty learning community (FLC) is a cross-disciplinary group of faculty and professional staff of size 6-15 (8 to 12 is the recommended size) engaging in an active, collaborative, yearlong program with a curriculum about enhancing teaching and learning and with frequent seminars and activities that provide learning, development, interdisciplinarity, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and community building. A participant in a faculty learning community may select a focus course or project to try out innovations, assess resulting student learning, and prepare a course or project mini-portfolio; engage in biweekly seminars and some retreats; work with student associates; and present project results to the campus and at national conferences. Evidence shows that FLCs increase faculty interest in teaching and learning and provide safety and support for faculty to investigate, attempt, assess, and adopt new (to them) methods." (from the Web site below)

FLC CONFERENCES AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES:

• National FLC Web Site


• Transforming Learning Across Ohio,, Newark, OH June 14


• The 7th FLC New Developers' Institute, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, June 23-25, 2005