Designing for Impact: The Center for Teaching and Learning as a Cultivator of a Faculty Learner-Leader Praxis
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- Oct 01, 2023
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- University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Abstract
Centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) address external and internal factors that influence teaching and learning. To accomplish this, often without additional resources, CTLs need an efficient and effective solution. By combining evidence-based practices in faculty development and a distillation of effective practices at three different institutions, the authors developed a sustainable, generative, learner-leader model for CTLs and others in faculty development to employ. The model emerged from an analysis of the authors’ collective and independent professional experiences, is grounded in a community of practice framework, and innovatively addresses the need for faculty leadership development. The authors describe the components of the learner-leader praxis and illustrate in narrative examples. By employing a learner-leader model, CTLs and others in faculty development can efficiently and effectively transform teaching and reach greater numbers of faculty.
