Life is at base a network. It thrives on connection. We all know this, experientially, because we are alive! And when we are not feeling alive or lively it is often because we are disconnected, cut ...

Jennifer Dobbs-Oates, clinical associate professor of human development and family studies, will facilitate an interactive exploration of the intersection of experiential education with diversity and ...

A community of practice is a group of cross-divisional faculty and instructional staff who are interested in collaboratively learning about and integrating new teaching practices or technologies that ...

Much ink has been spilled over the importance of lifelong learning. An Albert Einstein quote, “When you stop learning, you start dying,” has been trending on Instagram and TikTok—spaces where you can ...

Founders gathered at the French start-up incubator La Station F, an example of a community of practice. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, he carried a flag from the Explorers Club in ...

Shirley Hord, Learning Forward’s scholar laureate, has focused her career on research about and practice of effective professional learning communities. Here she answers an educator’s question about ...

The idea that students need to develop a deeper understanding of content and the ability to apply what they learn in one area to another area are major premises of new learning standards, such as the ...

This resource is a guide to using an STM Online: Encore presentation as a conversation starter with members of a faith community. Each part of the presentation may be used separately, in combinations ...

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are effective means to build capacities for development planning, providing venues for sharing best practices and learning from experiences of other countries. The ...

Thanks to a collection of "communities of practice" across chemistry subdisciplines, instructors are finding new ways to connect and engage with peers online and in person. In addition, they are ...

Sometimes while teaching we become the ones who are taught. From time to time we get reminded of our roots, and in a flash the building blocks of our industry's' composition and structure are laid ...