Establishing a Collaborative Action Research Community

Thanks to Judith Kamber for forwarding the following article from Innovation Abstracts highlighting the creation of a SoTL community of practice involving a community college and a four year institution.  The following abstract is provided by NISOD and a link is available to view the full article.

Establishing a Collaborative Action Research Community, by Harriet Shenkman, Faculty Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, at Bronx Community College (NY), describes a successful strategy for getting faculty from two- and four-year institutions together to talk about their teaching and ways to improve student learning. Their disciplines are diverse, but their goals are shared. They design projects for the coming year. An intensive week of working together is followed by sharing progress and advice throughout the year, punctuated by reunions that, in addition to renewing developing friendships, provide tremendous opportunities to showcase projects.

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