Developing Faculty Learning Communities at Two-Year Colleges: Collaborative Models to Improve Teaching and Learning

This book introduces community college faculty and faculty developers to the use of faculty learning communities (FLCs) as a means for faculty themselves to investigate and surmount student learning problems they encounter in their classrooms, and as an effective and low-cost strategy for faculty developers working with few resources to stimulate innovative teaching that leads to student persistence and improved learning outcomes.

Two-year college instructors face the unique challenge of tea...