The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Consortium for Teaching and Learning is a virtual multi-national educational community established to provide its members with timely resources and services in support of effective pedagogy as we engage with the fundamental challenges of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
The CTL is Co-Directed by Colleen Monahan Smith (GLCA) and Lew Ludwig (Denison University). Steve Volk (Oberlin College) is editor of News of the Week.
What We Do
The GLCA Consortium for Teaching and Learning serves faculty and instructional staff across multiple colleges through interactive engagement by providing opportunities for internal and external experts to present and exchange ideas through virtual events, workshops and presentations. These activities provide a range of resources to inform liberal arts teaching and learning within and across disciplines; expand the community of practice and foster engaged thinking and dialogue on matters of teaching and student-centered learning.
The CTL curates and distributes a weekly digest of relevant news related to teaching and learning, News of the Week (subscribe here).
Mission
The mission of the GLCA Consortium for Teaching and Learning is to support and advance effective liberal arts education, providing access to teaching resources and connections to a vital community of educators with a shared commitment to enhancing liberal arts teaching and student-centered learning.
Core Values
In establishing the Consortium for Teaching and Learning, we affirm these core principles:
- We are an international community whose members advocate and support effective teaching as a primary value in our liberal arts colleges. To achieve and sustain excellence in teaching requires an environment of support, including the support that faculty members give to one another through the sharing of ideas and experience.
- We affirm and support multiple ways to teach effectively; no single approach will work for everyone.
- Consistent with the central tenets of liberal education, we regard our responsibilities as teachers to be best achieved by helping our students develop as independent thinkers capable of providing informed and critical perspectives, able to act responsibly in the larger world and to respect and engage constructively with others who may not share their ideas and who will come from a rich diversity of backgrounds and identities.