Launching September 2023
Join a Faculty Learning Community
A Faculty Learning Community is a structured community of faculty members with collective goals to impact teaching and learning. In general, these groups are 6-8 faculty members whose goals include:
- Explore a pertinent issue or problem in higher education.
Engage in research and practice to address the chosen issue - Create a community of inquiry and support
- Improve teaching and learning
- Produce scholarly work(s) such as publications, conference presentations, grant proposals, or curricular developments.
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) may be interdisciplinary, or they may have members from a single discipline. They are made up of faculty members from various ranks, roles, experiences, and perspectives. A successful FLC works to establish a productive, supportive community in which members can explore a topic from various perspectives, resulting in professional development, problem-solving, and scholarship.
Faculty Learning Community members make a commitment to the group to meet regularly (every 3 weeks is recommended), to support collaborative inquiry, and to value diverse perspectives. Group members determine their own objectives, meeting topics, tasks to be completed, outcomes to be achieved, and deliverable dates. Many groups spend the first semester learning and planning, and then the second semester implementing and assessing the project and process.
The overarching topic for 2023-2024 Faculty Learning Communities is Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education. Groups typically select one issue to explore. Possible areas of focus may include, but are not limited to . . .
- Using AI as a tool for supporting or improving teaching.
- Integrating AI into student assessments and course activities.
- Modeling professional or industry specific uses of AI in classes.
- Partnerships with professional organizations to support student experiential learning.
- AI’s impact on student learning (critical thinking, content mastery, engagement).
- Ethical considerations for students and academics using AI.
- Curricular developments such as developing a new course such as AI Literacy, AI for a specific industry/major, AI Ethics, etc., or developing an AI minor.
- Writing a grant proposal to support faculty development or revision of courses to integrate AI tools and practices.
Interested in joining an FLC? Sign-up
Contact ctle@saintleo.edu for more information.
