Contact Mary Price for any questions concerning the Consortium for Learning and Scholarship
The Faculty Communities of Practice (CoP) program adapts collaborative learning strategies to enhance faculty development and promote improved student learning. At IUPUI, CoPs consist of faculty and other members of the campus community who share an interest in enhancing their teaching practice. At their core, the communities are opportunities to establish and develop interdisciplinary faculty support networks and to serve as knowledge incubators for scholarly research. From an institutional perspective, communities of practice also serve as an informal but valuable means to promote organizational learning.
The goals of the CoP program include enhancing undergraduate learning by increasing faculty interest, practice, and expertise in teaching. These goals are achieved by providing safe, supportive communities in which faculty can investigate and take risks in implementing new approaches to teaching and by increasing the collaboration and coherence of learning across disciplines, particularly in relation to the Principles of Undergraduate Learning.
Another goal of the CoP program is to foster scholarly teaching, the scholarship of teaching, and its application to better documentation of student learning. These goals and outcomes are similar to those of student learning communities: increased learning, greater satisfaction with college life, improved communication and understanding across disciplines, better understanding of self and others, a faster rate of intellectual development, increased retention, less stress, and commitment to civic responsibility (educational citizenship). Faculty participants then foster these qualities in their students.
To learn more about the CoP program at IUPUI, please contact Mary Price at 317-278-6481 or via email
at price6@iupui.edu.
