As noted on the CETL website, “A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is a group of trans-disciplinary faculty and professional staff engaged in an active, collaborative, year-long program focused on a specific topic or concern that is collaboratively pursued with an aim to enhance student outcomes and personal development. FLC participants, including facilitators, complete a project to try out innovations, assess resulting student and personal outcomes, and shows these results in a mini-portfolio. FLCs are fantastic stepping stones to full Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research, providing faculty with time to research a specific topic, create a mini-trial project, and design assessment protocols all with support from peers and CETL. Evidence shows that FLCs increase faculty interest in teaching and learning and provide safety and support for faculty to investigate, attempt, assess, and adopt new (to them) methods.”
