Creating a culture of faculty inquiry and innovation

What is it about?

The article investigates a program focused on developing an appreciation for ongoing inquiry and scholarship at a non-research higher education setting. The program, Innov8, has been exceedingly successful at transforming faculty perspectives and instigating classroom innovation to improve student learning outcomes.

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Why is it important?

While most research universities focus on empirical research, teaching colleges and universities do not necessarily integrate research about the impact of educational strategies on content based learning into their value structure. Specifically, community colleges that are targeting open access, affordable, and career pathways may not include the scholarship of teaching and learning into their evaluation schema or value structures. Innov8 provides an example that not only expands faculty knowledge of technology and innovation, but also integrates methods for transforming faculty perspectives about their ability and the benefit of conducting ongoing action research to assess the impact of the implementation of learning methods and technologies into instructional practice.