Preparing Faculty to Flip: Lessons from a Faculty Learning Community
Kris Gorman
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Keywords: learning community, faculty, session plans
Abstract
In this presentation, we will describe a faculty learning community designed for instructors teaching at the University of Minnesota who wanted to “flip” a portion of their course. We structured the FLC in a flipped format to model the pedagogy and provided consultation support during the program so the participants could implement their ideas. Attendees to this session should walk away being able to describe the format of our program, how the structure of our program supported the faculty creating high-quality pedagogy and what kinds of projects our participants completed during the program. We hope that in addition, it will provide fodder for how to support faculty adoption of novel pedagogical approaches at their own institution.
You'll find all of the resources related to our FLC at the website listed. The attached additional files are in response to requests from participants in the session.
http://z.umn.edu/2016FlippedFLC
Author Biography
Kris Gorman, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Kris is an Instructional Consultant at UMN's Center for Educational Innovation. Kris has a PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from the University of Rochester.
