President's Teaching and Learning Collaborative (PTLC)
The University of Colorado Four campus President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative is “an extension of work begun as an institutional participant in the Campus Program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), 2006-2009.”
The President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative (PTLC) was established in 2006. It offers faculty from all campusesan opportunity for professional development and the experience and intellectual practice of work in two scholarly endeavors: teaching and research. The PTLC seeks to promote the practice of inquiry in teaching and measuring student learning. The Collaborative assists University faculty in developing scholarly research projects on teaching and learning intended for refereed publication.
This program is modeled on and sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and is now in the fourth year of its participation. The goals of the collaborative are: to include fostering inquiry and leadership for the improvement of student learning, developing and synthesizing knowledge about learning and teaching, and promoting institutional change in support of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Colleges and universities document and assess their efforts, and provide ongoing evidence of impact. PTLC program assesses the work in an effort to better understand and document the development of leadership capacity, knowledge building, and institutional change. The collaborative is a project where all faculty of the University of Colorado system are invited to become faculty investigators in teaching and learning. The President’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative is an extension of work begun as an institutional participant in the Campus Program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), 2006-2009.
All faculty members and teaching professors on any campus of the University of Colorado are encouraged to apply. We seek faculty with a record of innovation in teaching and/or assessment of learning as well as those just beginning to examine their teaching and their students’ learning. Experience in educational research is not a requirement. The aim of the program is to broaden participation of faculty in effective inquiry in learning and teaching. Familiarity with the literature on learning and teaching in one's discipline is an on going necessity, and the goal of the program is that PTLC participants publish their research. Creating and disseminating scholarly work in teaching and learning to contribute to scholarship and practice in and across fields is central to the PTLC. To this end, each scholar designs and undertakes an investigation aimed at deepening her or his understanding of, and practice related to an important issue in innovative learning.
To date there have been 95 faculty researchers from all four CU campuses who have worked in the collaborative.
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