Developing Faculty Learning Communities at Two-Year Colleges: Collaborative Models to Improve Teaching and Learning

ISBN 10: 1579228453 / ISBN 13: 9781579228453

Verlag: Routledge, 2013

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9781579228453

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Developing Faculty Learning Communities at Two-Year Colleges: Collaborative Models to Improve Teaching and Learning
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1579228453
• ISBN-13: 9781579228453
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

This book introduces the reader to FLCs and to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, offering examples of application in two-year colleges.

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Susan Sipple is Associate Professor of English at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. Sipple teaches literature, composition, and developmental writing; she is a 29-year teaching veteran who has taught at two-year open-access colleges, four-year liberal arts colleges, and major state universities. She has won several awards for her teaching, including UC’s A.B. “Dolly” Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching and UC’s Boyce Award for Outstanding Teaching. She is a member of UC’s Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning. Her most recent scholarship includes research on study abroad, faculty learning communities, faculty burnout, and instructor feedback on student writing. In addition, she has won research awards from the National Association for Developmental Education and the Ohio Association for Developmental Education. Robin Lightner is Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Learning and Teaching Center at UC Blue Ash College. She has been appointed to the University's Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning and awarded her college’s Distinguished Teaching Award. She has worked on a FIPSE grant on Self-Regulated Learning, and employs a number of techniques in her courses to help students become better learners. She teaches Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Personality, and Social Psychology. She leads a faculty learning community on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Milton D. Cox is Project Director, FIPSE Project on Faculty Learning Communities Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and University Assessment, Miami University, Ohio.