TY - GEN
T1 - A virtual community of practice to support faculty efforts to adopt research-based instructional approaches
AU - Farrell, Stephanie
AU - Krause, Stephen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/1/21
Y1 - 2014/1/21
N2 - This paper describes a model for a virtual community of practice (VCP) to support faculty efforts to adopt research-based instructional strategies. The VCP was built on published recommendations for successful faculty development programs. The two leaders had expertise in the technical focus areas of chemical engineering and material science, as well as in engineering pedagogy. The participants were were full-time faculty members with a range of teaching experience and pedagogical expertise. Workshops were held using Internet conferencing software: The first 8 weekly workshops provided training in research-based pedagogy, and the second 8 biweekly workshops supported faculty efforts to implement chosen strategies in their courses. Significant improvement was measured via pre/post survey in the areas of familiarity and use of research-based pedagogy, as well as in perceived student motivation.
AB - This paper describes a model for a virtual community of practice (VCP) to support faculty efforts to adopt research-based instructional strategies. The VCP was built on published recommendations for successful faculty development programs. The two leaders had expertise in the technical focus areas of chemical engineering and material science, as well as in engineering pedagogy. The participants were were full-time faculty members with a range of teaching experience and pedagogical expertise. Workshops were held using Internet conferencing software: The first 8 weekly workshops provided training in research-based pedagogy, and the second 8 biweekly workshops supported faculty efforts to implement chosen strategies in their courses. Significant improvement was measured via pre/post survey in the areas of familiarity and use of research-based pedagogy, as well as in perceived student motivation.
KW - community of practice
KW - instructional practice
KW - online training
KW - research-based pedagogy
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U2 - 10.1109/ICL.2014.7017883
DO - 10.1109/ICL.2014.7017883
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84922932959
T3 - Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2014
SP - 845
EP - 848
BT - Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2014
Y2 - 3 December 2014 through 6 December 2014
ER -