Past FLCs

Faculty learning communities (FLCs) are small, peer-led groups of faculty who come together to discuss particular teaching topics, issues, or practices. Our past FLCs include:

• SoTL FLC: Equitable Collaborative Learning - This learning community ran in Spring 2023 and explored the SoTL literature on topics such as student identity and experiences in collaborative learning, group formation and dynamics, anticipating and navigating challenges, and evaluating collaborative learning.

• STEM Conceptual Knowledge FLC - This learning community ran in Fall 2022 for STEM instructors and investigated how concept inventories could be used to assess and improve students' conceptual knowledge in their classes.

• SoTL FLC: Student Engagement - This learning community ran in Fall 2022 and read Christine Harrington’s Keeping Us Engaged: Student Perspectives (and Research-Based Strategies) on What Works and Why, in addition the SoTL literature on student engagement.

• Specifications Grading FLC - This learning community ran in Fall 2021 and supported instructors interested in exploring and adopting an alternative grading approach called specifications grading.

• SoTL FLC: Evaluating Student Learning - This learning community ran in Summer 2021 and explored the SoTL literature on standards-based grading, specifications grading, ungrading, rubrics, and self- and peer evaluation.

• SoTL FLC: Research on Remote Instruction - This learning community ran in Fall 2020 and explored the SoTL literature on topics such as instructor presence, testing for learning, and asynchronous online discussion.