Priming the next generation of teachers and researchers: LEARN@Dal | News & Events - Dal News

Dalhousie is poised to make a major commitment to its current and future faculty in support of inclusive teaching this fall when it joins an academic network of top-tier research universities dedicated to developing and expanding proven high-impact teaching practices.

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Dal is one of six new members joining the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), a network that counts Columbia, Cornell, Yale, UBC, other major research universities across North America as current members.
 
Members of the network share resources and support one another. Dalhousie’s “node” of the network, which will be known as LEARN@Dal (Learning Equity and Access Research Network), will take advantage of the university’s expertise in adult learning and its commitment to equity, diversity and inclusiveness (EDI). Its focus will be on building capacity for reaching and teaching diverse learners...

Staying ahead of the curve
Each member university develops its own local learning community around CIRTL’s core ideas of teaching-as-research, learning communities and learning-through-diversity. The network shares multiple resources, including ongoing professional development, program evaluation guides, research briefs and ― highly relevant to this new COVID-19 era ― online, cross-network courses, workshops and drop-in events. 
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Source: Dal News