Join an FLC

Explore the Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) currently being offered this semester here. To register for an FLC, go to My Learning Connection or follow the directions included for each specific group. New FLCs are announced at the beginning of each semester.

 

Teaching with AI
Join a College-Based Faculty Learning Community (FLC) where you'll explore, experiment, and design real solutions for your own courses. Along the way, you’ll collaborate with colleagues, test out AI tools, and create something worth sharing.

Walk away with a project that matters—to you, your students, and your discipline.

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Other Faculty Learning Communities

Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) for Your Course
In today's academic world, Open Educational Resources (OER) are a chronically underutilized tool despite the many benefits they bring. This FLC brings faculty together to explore the adoption of OER as a strategy for enhancing student success, flexing academic freedom, and reducing textbook costs for students. Participants in this FLC will engage in shared readings, discussions, and collaborative planning, experience hands-on exploration of OER repositories, and walk away with a personalized OER action plan that will assist them in unlocking the full potential of OER in their classrooms.

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Information Literacy in an AI Era
Generative AI is quickly becoming an influential tool in both industry and higher education. Employers now name AI literacy as a sought-after skill for graduates they hire - but what does it mean to be AI literate? How do academic programs deal with the rise of AI effectively? How do we respond to AI while still maintaining vital critical thinking, writing, and academic integrity standards? This Faculty Learning Community will guide you as you examine your options as an educator and assist you as you make decisions regarding AI course policies for your students. 

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Sustainability Fellows

Breakfast or Lunch Provided!

The Sustainability Fellows Program at Missouri State University is a learning community for faculty, staff, and students dedicated to advancing sustainability efforts at MSU. One goal of the program is to foster a shared understanding of sustainability and to recognize how the pillars of sustainability can be integrated into discipline-specific learning across disciplines.

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Lunch Provided
Faculty Writing Retreats
The Faculty Writing Retreat is a semester long faculty community devoted to promoting collegiality to support faculty writing productivity.

Regularly scheduled writing blocks increase productivity and publishing rates.

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Wednesday Writing Circle
This faculty learning community exists to increase scholarly productivity, develop a scholarly community, facilitate the development of a culture of learning, and promote faculty leadership, collaboration, and collegiality across disciplines among faculty at MSU.

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