The Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering several FLCs during the 2015-16 Academic Year. Participating in an FLC requires a commitment to meet together 10-12 times (about every 2-3 weeks) during the Academic Year (Aug 17-May 16), as well as to read, collaborate, and make progress on individual projects between meetings. Each participant will actively contribute as responders, facilitators, peer reviewers and experts in selected areas of teaching and learning. Faculty should consider their other professional commitments before applying.
Registration is closed for 2015-16.
Facilitator: Dr. Karen McComas, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (mccomas@marshall.edu)
An ever-growing number of academics…see undergraduate research as the pedagogy for the twenty-first century (Dotterer, 2002, p. 81).
Undergraduate research as a pedagogy is a way to combine teaching and research to promote sustainable and transferable learning. As a pedagogy, undergraduate research provides an authentic kind of active engagement with the content. Through this engagement, students acquire the habits of mind and practices of a discipline’s researchers by: learning disciplinary methods and processes, articulating real problems, implementing a research plan, and disseminating their findings. In other words, students become scholars by doing what scholars do.
Members of this FLC will review the literature to explore and evaluate current best practices in undergraduate research as pedagogy, author/co-author a best practices publication and pilot one new practice in the classroom, study the outcomes of the pilot, and disseminate the results of the FLC’s individual and collaborative work.
PUR FLC Schedule: January 28, February 11 & 25, March 10 & 31, April 14 & 28 (all 9:00-11:00 am, CTL Commons)
An ever-growing number of academics…see undergraduate research as the pedagogy for the twenty-first century (Dotterer, 2002, p. 81).