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.
Book Clubs
Fall 2026 FCTL Book Club
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Set against the upheaval of war, Anthony Doerr’s novel invites readers to reflect on perception, empathy, resilience, and the human consequences of technology and ideology. Through beautifully layered storytelling, the book explores how people make meaning in times of uncertainty and how small acts of attention, care, and courage can illuminate even the darkest circumstances. For university faculty, the novel offers rich opportunities to discuss ethics, communication, memory, human connection, and the role of education and imagination in shaping humane societies.
Our meetings will be weekly via MS Teams on Mondays, 3:00-4:30 pm, from September 14th through November 16th. The first 20 faculty members who register will receive the book free.
Please register by 11:59 pm on September 01: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6zN1Z689W4Acfxc
Spring 2027 FCTL Book Club
The Science of Learning Meets AI by Lewis D. Ludwig and Todd D. Zakrajsek
This research-grounded guide helps college educators use generative AI to strengthen, not sideline, what they already know about effective teaching using a three-stage progression model—Adapt, Create, Embed—to help faculty from any discipline incorporate AI into their teaching.
Whether you’re skeptical, curious, or cautiously optimistic, this book offers a clear, practical path to using AI as a partner, not a replacement, in ways that support students and reinvigorate teaching.
Our meetings will be weekly via MS Teams on Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30 pm, from January 19th through March 23rd. The first 20 faculty members who register will receive the book free.
Please register by 11:59 PM on January 18, 2027:
Faculty Learning Communities
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