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Creating a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) Program to Promote Faculty Connection & Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
Session Overview
This video was part of the June 2022 REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit
This session will provide participants with a model for developing a sustainable campus-wide faculty learning community program that can promote culture change around teaching at the institutional level. Using their FLC program as a case study, the presenters will review the various types of FLC programs in higher education and outline research-based best practices for effective and successful implementation, including data from a recent study on the impact of the FLC program on departmental culture change. They will also share lessons learned—and what they are still learning—from shifting the program entirely online in 2020. This presentation is largely based on the presenters’ forthcoming chapter in Faculty Learning Communities: Communities of Practice that Support, Inspire, Engage, and Transform Higher Education Classrooms (Information Age Publishing, 2022) as part of the Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series.
Speakers
Kristin Winet
Program Administrator
| University of Arizona
Kristin Winet is the program administrator for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) at The University of Arizona, where she develops professional development in teaching programs for graduate students and postdocs and facilitates courses, workshops, and learning communities in writing and pedagogy.
Mascha N. Gemein
Associate Professor of Practice
| University of Arizona
Dr. Gemein, Associate Professor of Practice, is an educational developer with particular focus on equity, intercultural learning, and evidence-based curriculum development at the UArizona’s teaching center, the Office of Instruction and Assessment. She supports faculty and curriculum development through consultations, online and face-to-face professional development programs, and learning communities. She also is the Co-Coordinator and a faculty member in the Certificate in College Teaching program.
Gail Burd
Lisa Elfring
Associate Vice Provost, Instruction and Assessment
| University of Arizona
Lisa Elfring serves as Associate Vice Provost of Instruction and Assessment, heading up the Office of Instruction and Assessment (OIA), and is a Specialist in Biology Education in the Molecular and Cellular Biology department. In nearly 25 years at the University of Arizona, she has taught a wide variety of courses for well over 5,000 biology majors, graduate students, teachers-in-training, working teachers, and medical students. Her teaching and advising have been recognized by awards from the University of Arizona College of Science and Honors College. Her research focuses on developing programs to support instructors as they use active-learning strategies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms, and she is a Fellow for PULSE, the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education. At the Office of Instruction and Assessment, she leads a talented team that supports evidence-based teaching and learning in all University courses and modalities through technical support, professional-development programs, learning-outcomes assessment activities, instructional media, and educational application development
