Communities of Inquiry
Indiana University's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning initiative fosters collaborative efforts that generally speaking, help move teaching beyond a solitary, and quite often, private act. By embracing the idea that many of today's teaching challenges are in fact opportunities for faculty to collaborate on investigative research projects, IU's various Communities of Inquiry have become a mainstay of the program.
Each Community of Inquiry is a faculty-defined and implemented collaborative project contributing to the larger interdisciplinary conversation that has become one of the hallmarks of the SOTL program. Supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, each community concentrates on a particular research topic, teaching problem or theoretical model, as they generate, critique, and disseminate in-depth and comparative scholarship that examines relationships between learning and teaching, within and across disciplines.
Learn more about the individual communities by clicking on their links below.