As part of the CITL's mission to promote transformative learning experiences for IUB instructors, the CITL sponsors multiple Learning Communities each year. Learning Communities at Indiana University Bloomington are cohorts of instructors, often from different disciplines or fields of study, who ask questions about teaching and learning, try out teaching innovations, assess student learning, create new models of practice, and share their work with colleagues. Each community shares a question, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic, as members deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. Members engage in scholarly teaching and student-centered learning, collaborating within a collegial framework that offers peer review and support.
Learning Communities meet once or twice a month for the academic year, and each community has two types of outcomes—individual changes to one's own practice, and a group "give back" to the larger IUB teaching community. All full-time IUB faculty members, both tenure track and non-tenure track, are eligible to participate in Faculty Learning Communities; all graduate students are eligible to participate in Graduate Student Learning Communities.
Participants in some of the FLCs below are eligible for an honorarium upon their completion of the FLC, payable into their IU research accounts. Amounts vary by FLC, and your facilitator can provide details. Note that until 2024-25 budgets are released, we are uncertain of the funding of this year's FLCs.
Work of the 2024-25 FLCs will begin early in the fall semester, although we are trying to recruit participants now to allow them more time to work in the fall.