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Beyond the classroom, what are ways that learning communities help achieve student, faculty, and institutional learning objectives? This interactive keynote session will provide opportunities to reflect on this and other questions, examine evidence of learning community success, and consider ways to engage faculty and professional learning communities that can benefit your students, colleagues, and institution.
Build leadership skills in areas related to teaching and learning! Learn hands-on how to facilitate Faculty and Professional Learning Communities.Pre-registration preferred!
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Immerse yourself in a day-long Faculty and Professional Learning Communities experience around topics such as: Advising, On-line Learning,Using Group Learning to Foster Critical Thinking Skills in Students, Service Learning, Engaging students through Undergraduate Research, STEM Education, Digital Natives go to College, Problem Based Learning, andEducation in The Liberal Arts. Learn hands-on the community, interdisciplinary collegiality, and collaboration that can occur with your colleagues around issues of teaching and learning!
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MILTON D. COX is a member of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment at Miami University, where he founded and directs the Lilly Conference on College Teaching, is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal, and facilitates the Hesburgh Award-winning Teaching Scholars faculty learning community. Milt also has been project director of a FIPSE grant establishing faculty learning community programs on other campuses and is co-editor of the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities. He has consulted with and visited over 75 institutions initiating FLCs, including CIA University and institutions in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, and Sweden. He incorporates the use of student learning portfolios and Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences in his mathematics classes. He is recipient of the C.C. MacDuffee Award for distinguished service to Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary, and a certificate of special achievement from the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education in recognition and appreciation of notable contributions to the profession of faculty, instructional, and organizational development.
LAURIE RICHLIN is Director of Faculty Development at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles. She also is Director of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching--Pomona, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and the Learning Communities Journal, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars. She received her doctorate in higher education from the Claremont Graduate University, and her dissertation research on alternative faculty scholarship received the national Gratzke Award from the American Association of University Administrators. Her most recent book is Blueprint for Learning: Facilitating, Assessing, and Documenting Learning (Stylus, 2006). She has had several years experience facilitating FLCs for faculty and graduate students and is co-editor of the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities. Her current FLC efforts include FLCs on leadership, simulation technology, and for junior faculty members in a College of Medicine.