Past Faculty Learning Communities
An archive of previous years' FLCs2018
Digital Fluency and Content Development
Leader: Heather Cole
Campus: Behrend
Increasing our understanding of digital fluency and what it means at Penn State Behrend and to the campus as a whole. Considering how creativity is taught within our respective digital media and looking for common threads.
Global Learning in Agriculture
Leaders: Melanie Miller Foster, Noel Habashy
Campus: University Park
How can we teach global knowledge, skills, and dispositions in the classroom? Identifying common global learning challenges and sharing concrete examples of how others have overcome similar obstacles.
Innovative Instructional Technologies in the Classroom
Leader: Dawn Pfeifer Reitz
Campus: Berks
Collaborating with Berks Campus colleagues, across divisions, to learning new ways to use tech in the classroom, and blogging all about it.
Mentoring Undergraduate Student Researchers
Leader: Lara LaDage
Campus: Altoona
Streamline, consolidate, and create consistency with information related to mentoring undergraduate research and assess the learning gains from undergraduate research experiences at Penn State Altoona.
OER: Local and Global Appeal
Leader: Beth Egan
Campus: University Park
Examining the implications of using open education resource materials for course design and delivery in hospitality management and dietetics education. Assessing gaps in the OER literature in hospitality management and dietetics education with the potential to develop resources in areas of need. Exploring the possibility of using these resources in personal teaching practice and in underdeveloped parts of the world.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Chemistry
Leader: Neyda Abreu
Campus: DuBois
Looking into resources for digitizing content in undergraduate chemistry courses at Penn State DuBois, and determining the one that has the potential to work well then testing it through the SoTL approach.
Teaching of Data Visualizations
Leader: Benjamin Lear
Campus: University Park
Discovering and sharing resources and best practices for the creation and teaching of data visualizations while finding ways to establish an enduring data visualization community.