Professional Learning Communities
The Center for Teaching and Learning facilitates Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to foster relationships among faculty and staff, providing the opportunity for peer-to-peer learning. Together, employees explore, share, support, and learn about specific topics that enhance their work and enrich their own as well as their students’ and colleagues’ experiences. The goal of these communities is to learn within the PLCs and share information across the university.
Members must be in good standing and have approval from their manager to participate. Live events developed and presented by these groups will be shared on the PG Calendar and open to all employees at Purdue Global to attend. Archives are shared in the Recording Catalog. Attendees may join the events at any stage within each series.
The Creative Salon
The Creative Salon provides live events focusing on the impact of creativity on education, diversity, and culture by presenting a creative art form, the theory behind it, and how faculty may use it in the classroom.
New members are welcome, and you may document your time serving on the Creative Salon team as a service to the university. Please check with your chair or manager about service activity requirements.
Creative Salon Team Members: Paige Erickson, Jessica Love, Lisa Phillips, Ritu Sharma, Errol Sull, Jan Watson, and Sara Wink
Great Emerging Methods (GEMs)
The GEMs team honors a decade-long tradition by offering bi-monthly live events in collaboration with the CTL. The team consists of volunteers serving as Gemologists who coordinate and present the events. The GEMs team shares techniques, methods, and activities that have been effective in the classroom and encourages attendees to engage by sharing their own tips and best practices.
All Purdue Global employees are welcome to join a session and share.
New members are welcome, and you may document your time serving on the GEMs team as a service to the university. Please check with your chair or manager about service activity requirements. Gemologists meet to brainstorm, collaborate, and plan future sessions.
Member expectations include:
Maintain engagement by attending at least two planning sessions
Co-lead at least one live event within the academic year
Gemologists: Carol T. Edwards, Teresa Marie Kelly, Ritu Sharma, Tami Tacker, and Stephanie Thompson
The Module Course Professional Learning Community
The Module Course PLC coordinates live events focusing on topics specific to module courses including best practices and tips for teaching modules. All are welcome to attend and participants are encouraged to share, ask questions, and engage in conversation about module courses.
New PLC members are welcome, and you may document your time serving on the Module PLC team as a service to the university. Please check with your chair or manager about service activity requirements. Module Course PLC members meet to brainstorm, collaborate, and plan future sessions.
Module Course PLC Members: Julie Dort, Catherine Flynn, Peg Hohensee, Leslie Johnson, Missy Santman, and Kate Scarpena
The Research Professional Learning Community
The Research PLC is an initiative to help attendees identify skills, facilitate teams, and guide them through the research process. It was formed to help members and attendees find support, networking, collaboration, and resources to stretch beyond current research and scholarship skill levels.
The series takes attendees through the research and publication process from start to completion and beyond. Participants can attend the presentations to learn more about the process. The option to join a research team is also available.
Research team leaders will lead a research project following the steps outlined in the research presentation series. Potential members should keep in mind the following when considering joining a team:
Workload: Although being part of a research team may seem like a daunting task, the work is shared and manageable when working on a research team.
Timeline: Research projects may develop over the academic year and begin after the presentation series concludes.
Further Development: Results often spark future opportunities that may develop as a new research project.
Archives Available: The presentations will be recorded and available for those unable to attend the live session.
Research Series Presentation Recordings
Introduction to the Research PLC
30 Minutes
Outcomes for this session include:
Learn how scholarly research and publication can be reasonably managed and accomplished as part of a team.
Identify transferable skills that can be applied to a role as a member of a research team.
Discuss research, scholarship, and publishing opportunities.
30 Minutes
Outcomes for this session include:
Understand the qualities of a good research topic
Identify a topic for further exploration
Creating My Research Question and Hypotheses
45 Minutes
Outcomes for this session include:
Discuss how to narrow a research topic into a specific research question
Understand how to write hypotheses that can be tested
45 Minutes
Outcomes for this session include:
Understand IRB review process
Understand ethical principles that govern human subjects research
Understand guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Protection from Research Risk
45 Minutes
Outcomes for this session include:
Explain the purpose of an introduction
Identify three key parts of an introduction
Discuss at least two approaches to writing an introduction
45 Minutes
Outcomes for this session include:
Participants will identify the 'why' or purpose of their research study and its intended results.
The Art of the Literature Review
45 minutes
Outcomes
Define a literature review and why it is important
Discuss potential problems encountered when writing a literature review
Identify best practices for conducting a literature review
Methodology and Other Mysterious Ways to Answer the Research Question
45 Minute
Discuss the difference between independent and dependent variables, reliability and validity, and qualitative and quantitative research.
Identify various methods for collecting research data.
Getting the Citations and References Right
45 minutes
Identify helpful hints for finding and verifying supporting sources.
Identify accurate and reliable resources.
Research Project Teams
Dr. Ginger Cameron
Presenter and Research Team Lead
Research Team Members:
James Ebert, Marsha Fields, Kathryn Kelly, Jim Ready, and Julie Torres-Roman
Dr. Jack Deem
Presenter and Research Team Lead
Research Team Members:
Holley Linkous, Lisa Phillips, Todd Price, Carol Taylor, and Jennifer Teague
Research Team Members:
Dena Aucoin, Christopher Gransberry, Lindsey Jarvie, Larasz Moody, Shannon Perry, and Heather Weller
Research PLC Members: Jeff Bailie, Ginger Cameron, Jack Deem, Eric Holmes, Lindsey Jarvie, Misty LaCour, Lisa Phillips, Sue Pettine, Lisa Phillips, Holli Vah Seliskar, and Robert Winters
