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Download full textLaura Gough; Rommel Miranda; Matthew Hemm; Leann Norman; Brian Jara – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2025
The Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) model can be used to explore how faculty prioritize learning about and adopting new pedagogical approaches. Here, we use the DOI framework to contextualize biology faculty perceptions of a professional development (PD) program designed to help them create a full semester course-based undergraduate research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Student Research
Direct linkSophia Abbot; Laura Lukes; Dayna Henry; Lindsay Wheeler – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this chapter, the authors describe the theory of change behind a regional cross-institutional community of practice (CoP) for educational developers seeking to strengthen their institution's SoTL culture and increase faculty SoTL production by providing institution-level support initiatives and programming.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Institutional Cooperation, Communities of Practice
Channing R. Ford; Emily B. Wilkins; Kristen L. Helms; Kimberly B. Garza – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article explores the evolutionary nature of higher education and how it continues to stress the need for the professoriate to be active within scholarly teaching. This qualitative study examines how each author navigates SoTL research and analyzes the authors' reflective journaling for themes and sub-themes for alignment with Scholarship…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Safety, Diaries
Myllykoski-Laine, Siru; Postareff, Liisa; Murtonen, Mari; Vilppu, Henna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
The teaching and pedagogical development of academic communities is influenced by different contextual elements, which may not be apparent in everyday community practices, but may become evident through deeper reflection of the context. This study approaches these elements from the perspective of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Values
Kripa Freitas; Jennifer Murdock – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
Among existing infrastructures to disseminate innovative teaching methods and to build collaborative networks, the authors situate a community of practice (CoP). They explain what a CoP is and compare it with teaching-focused economics journals and conferences, and other infrastructures such as institutional teaching centers. Since 2016, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
Soraya Elena Layton-Jaramillo; Oscar Germán Duarte-Velasco; Eva María Aguaded-Ramírez; Francisco Javier Carrillo-Rosúa – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2025
This paper analyzes the relationship between the development of pedagogical innovation projects in experimental sciences and the establishment and evolution of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) in higher education, within an open innovation framework. To achieve this, an evaluative study employing a mixed-methods approach was conducted,…
Descriptors: College Science, Science Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods
Tocco, Audrey J.; Mehrhoff, Lauren A.; Osborn, Haley M.; McCartin, Lyda F.; Jameson, Molly M. – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Pedagogical metacognition, or the reflective and reflexive actions associated with teaching practice, strengthens the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of teaching in higher education faculty. Learning communities are optimal environments to foster this active teaching reflection. This study incorporated pedagogical metacognition…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Higher Education
I. Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri; Helen Widdop Quinton; Mark Selkrig – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Enhancing creativity skills and dispositions is one of the many student capabilities academics in higher education are required to promote. Although there are several issues that can hamper academics' engagement with creativity including demands of performance indicators and limited freedom to experiment with teaching. In this article, we consider…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Creative Activities
Mike Wilton; Jeffrey Maloy; Laura Beaster-Jones; Brian K. Sato; Stanley M. Lo; Daniel Z. Grunspan – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
At many research-intensive universities in North America, there is a disproportionate loss of minoritized undergraduate students from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. Efforts to confront this diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) challenge, such as faculty adoption of evidenced-based instructional approaches that…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, STEM Education, Teacher Influence
Susanna Calkins; Anna Conway; Tazin Daniels; Regina F. Frey; Donald L. Gillian-Daniel; Bennett Goldberg; Robin McC. Greenler; Lucas B. Hill; Sarah Chobot Hokanson; Vanessa Johnson-Ojeda; Tershia Pinder-Grover; Sara Armstrong; Diamond Buchanan; Diane Codding; Schnaude Dorizan; Noah Green; Ivan A. Hernandez; Lisa Himelman; Tim Immelman; Omari W. Keeles; Haley Lewis; SuYeong (Sophie) Shin; Veronica Womack; Sara E. Woods; Alessandra M. York – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The authors developed a free online course that centers learning about identity, power, positionality, and privilege to support inclusive teaching for STEM faculty and future faculty. Instructors across all institution types, including community college and 2-year, regional and comprehensive, and public and private research universities, utilized…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, STEM Education, Faculty Development
Kaustavi Sarkar – Journal of Dance Education, 2024
As an artist/academic, I discuss my pedagogical interventions in teaching Odissi through studio, theory, and praxis courses to populations across university students and professional artists. Through interdisciplinary research, I work at the confluence of historical and contemporary forces. Casteist, fundamentalist, racist, sexist, ablist, and…
Descriptors: Artists, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
Aletta M. du Plessis; Cornelia M. Schreck; Christo A. Bisschoff; Dané Coetzee; Samantha A. Kahts-Kramer; Jacobus J. Oosthuizen – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2025
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) communities of practice (CoP) have emerged as collaborative learning environments that unite people with a shared interest. However, forming and maintaining a successful SoTL CoP can be challenging, requiring careful planning and execution. As academics, we face various challenges in our teaching and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
Gormley, Clare – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
The influence of non-formal professional learning in higher education remains a relatively under-researched area. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by exploring the impact of an implementation of non-formal professional learning operating at an Irish university since April 2017. The initiative--called "The Sipping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Nonformal Education, Faculty Development
Reinholz, Daniel L.; Reid, Aileen; Shah, Niral – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Meaningful change towards antiracist practices take time. There are no quick fixes. Quick workshops on implicit bias and microaggressions rarely lead to lasting changes in teaching practices. Equity QUantified In Participation (EQUIP) learning communities organize faculty members to work together to promote antiracist teaching. Equity analytics…
Descriptors: Racism, Teaching Methods, Equal Education, Communities of Practice
Mataka, Lloyd M.; Saderholm, Jon C.; Hodge, Tracy T. – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2022
In this paper, we present the influence of a professional development, including a faculty learning community (FLC), on STEM teaching practices at a southern US liberal arts college. We used a quasi-experimental mixed-method design to collect information about teaching practices and the influence of the professional development. The Reformed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, STEM Education, Faculty Development, Student Centered Learning
