Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Faculty Communities

This book explores Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) as impactful professional learning for higher education faculty. It covers FLC initiatives across various fields, their impact on teaching and student learning, and potential for institutional change. The foreword by Milton D. Cox discusses recent developments and virtual FLCs. This edited book on Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) provides and explores powerful examples of FLCs as a impactful form of professional learning for faculty in higher education. The chapters describe faculty learning community initiatives across different fields of study and within dynamic and flexible teaching and learning models. Contributing authors provide a framework for faculty learning communities, show the impact of faculty learning communities on teaching practices or student learning, and describe how these communities of practice can lead to institutional change. The book’s foreword, by Milton D. Cox, investigates the changes in the FLC world over the past decade: the influence of Communities of Practices (CoP), recent recommendations about virtual FLCs and CoPs, and the positive affirmation for FLCs that implementation science has provided.