"Faculty Learning Communities support collaboration, innovation, lifelong learning and, perhaps most importantly, create time and space apart from a hectic work week, allowing faculty time to reflect on their work and incorporate their learning into their classrooms to improve student learning.” Jane Lister Reis

Learn more about the Faculty Learning Communities Initiative sponsored by the Assessment, Teaching & Learning office of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

Learn about Beverly Parson's Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice (CLIPs) at her website: www.insites.org

The Ohio Learning Network Learning Communities wiki has resources for building and sustaining these communities.