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Goal 1:
Develop an understanding of the educational research process by attending, participating, contributing, and sharing in a faculty learning community experience.
- Objective 1: Attendance: Community members are expected to attend each session.
- Objective 2: Participation: Community members are expected to participate in a variety of activities. For example, members are expected to participate in community meetings, individual study, online exchanges and presentations to the greater academic community.
- Objective 3: Contribution: Community members are expected to contribute in a variety of ways. Contribution can be made through discussion during community meetings, sharing of information found during individual study, and to the production of teaching and learning resources, such as manuals, online resources, workshops, presentations at national meetings.
- Objective 4: Sharing: Community members are expected to share their small group experience with colleagues in order to generate interest in the FLC program and to create a better understanding of faculty community.
Goal 2:
Through shared community experiences, participants will explore and discuss the steps in creating and disseminating educational scholarship.
- Objective 1: Community members will access literature on how to perform educational research.
- Objective 2: Community members will share their findings with each other.
- Objective 3: Community members will serve as each other’s peer support as they discuss their research projects.
Goal 3:
FLC members will engage in an individual educational research project and collective (i.e. group) project.
- Objective 1: Community members will design an educational research project.
- Objective 2: Community members will serve as each other’s peer support as they create projects.
Goal 4:
FLC members will engage in a collective (i.e. group) project.
- Objective 1: Community members will work together to produce a group project that can serve as a resource base for faculty who are interested in exploring the scholarship of teaching and learning.
- Objective 2: Community members are expected to take part in a Center for Teaching Excellence event highlighting the accomplishments of the FLC.
Goal 5:
FLC members will serve as their department’s specialist for the scholarship of teaching and learning.
- Objective 1: Community members will share the results of their FLC experience with their departmental colleagues.
- Objective 2: Community members will share their research project with their departmental colleagues
Goal 6:
Assess the results of the learning community’s efforts and disseminate that assessment.
- Objective 1: Community members will explore various assessment methods.
- Objective 2: Community members will devise an assessment plan.
- Objective 3: Community members will carry out this assessment plan.
- Objective 4: Community members will disseminate the findings of the assessment locally and nationally or internationally.
