The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering FLCs during the 2014-15 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 5-6 times (about every 2-3 weeks) over the course of a semester. In most cases, FLCs work over a two-semester period. In addition to the meetings, participants will read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.
2014-2015: Registration for this faculty learning community is closed!
Facilitator: Dr. Karen McComas, Center for Teaching and Learning
An ever-growing number of academics…see undergraduate research as the pedagogy for the twenty-first century (Dotterer, 2002, p. 81).
Undergraduate research as a pedagogy is a way to combine teaching and research to promote sustainable and transferable learning. As a pedagogy, undergraduate research provides an authentic kind of active engagement with the content. Through this engagement, students acquire the habits of mind and practices of a discipline’s researchers by: learning disciplinary methods and processes, articulating real problems, implementing a research plan, and disseminating their findings. In other words, students become scholars by doing what scholars do.
Members of this FLC will review the literature to explore and evaluate current best practices in undergraduate research as pedagogy, author/co-author a best practices publication and pilot one new practice in the classroom, study the outcomes of the pilot, and disseminate the results of the FLC’s individual and collaborative work.
PUR FLC Schedule: September 11 & 25, October 9 & 23, November 13, and December 4 (1:00 pm – 3:00 pm) | OM 109 – Teaching Commons