Each semester, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning hosts multiple semester-long interdisciplinary cohorts designed to help innovate or refine teaching techniques and learning activities. Cohorts typically meet four to six times per semester. Some cohorts may meet in person, while others may meet virtually. In all cases, the participants serve as a learning community for one another.
Faculty Learning Communities
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) are simply groups of faculty who meet several times over the course of a semester around a single theme. FLCs will often take the form of learning and investigating at first and will then attempt implementation in the classroom and share results.
Book Clubs
Fall 2025 Book Club: The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Overstory follows nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. The stories focus on the complex but usually invisible interconnections of the natural world and a group of people who come to recognize the value of those connections. The book won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is currently being adapted into a Netflix series.
The book club will meet weekly via Zoom on Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 pm, from August 26th through November 18th. The first 20 faculty members who register will receive the book free.
To register, please complete this form by 11:59pm on August 25th:
https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bm6AkYl8M0yZubI
Faculty Writing Club
Join your fellow faculty on Friday mornings from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (noon) to network, be productive, and provide gentle accountability. You can join online or in person at the Faculty Center. If you are coming in person, feel free to bring your device, but we’ll also have laptops you can borrow.
We will spend the first five (5) minutes sharing our goals for the time block and then spend the rest of the time working on our individual projects. During the last five (5) minutes, we will share what we’ve accomplished and what we plan to do next time. Everyone is welcome.
If you have questions or ideas or would like to be added to the Microsoft Team for virtual writing, please contact Aimee deNoyelles, Senior Instructional Designer with the Division of Digital Learning.