ABSTRACT

The Faculty Reports that follow all underline the power of collaborations aimed at deeper understandings of the student experience; in addition, they point to the ways that faculty can work together to help students themselves be more active partners in shaping their learning. What got us really excited about the prospects for peer collaboration and review was combining the visits with interviews of each other's students. It was through the interviews that the authors got the deepest, most helpful information about our teaching and our students learning. In keeping with the idea of peer collaboration, the authors interviewed each other's students. Jere chose to focus on his two undergraduate classes, which were quite large, so the authors asked the students themselves to select representatives they suggested five whom they then would interview.