{"id":3109,"date":"2017-05-02T12:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/?page_id=3109"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:02:30","slug":"flc-pedagogy-of-undergraduate-research-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/faculty-learning-communities\/flc-pedagogy-of-undergraduate-research-ii","title":{"rendered":"FLC (2015-2016): Pedagogy of Undergraduate Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering several\u00a0FLCs during the 2015-16 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 10-12 times (about every 2-3 weeks) during the Academic Year (Aug 17-May 16), as well as to 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><strong>Registration is closed for 2015-16.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Facilitator<\/strong>: Dr. Karen McComas, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (mccomas@marshall.edu)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><em>An ever-growing number of academics\u2026see undergraduate research as the pedagogy for the twenty-first century\u00a0<\/em>(Dotterer, 2002, p. 81).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">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\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">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\u2019s individual and collaborative work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>PUR\u00a0FLC Schedule<\/b>: January 28, February 11 &amp; 25, March 10 &amp; 31, April 14 &amp; 28 (all 9:00-11:00 am, CTL Commons)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering several\u00a0FLCs during the 2015-16 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 10-12 times (about every 2-3 weeks) during the Academic Year (Aug 17-May 16), as well as to read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":3124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109\/revisions\/8535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}