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Faculty Learning Communities: Benefiting from Collective Wisdom

Posted Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 by Maryellen Weimer

An article in the January-February issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching reports on the experiences of a group of life sciences faculty who participated in a faculty learning community. “We wanted to bring together life sciences faculty members who would discuss and support each others’ teaching and learning goals, breaking down the communication barrier that characterizes most teaching activities in the sciences.” (p. 39)