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MIL Project Description

The goal of our MIL Fellowship Proposal is to promote more meaningful communication about learning and instruction among students and their instructors. Meaningful communication is a prerequisite to the establishment of a "community of learners" in which instructors learn to see their classrooms from the viewpoints of their students and students better understand the perspectives of their teachers. Only in such a community can effective instruction and valid assessment occur.

One of us will serve an insider role as a "master learner." Master learners are faculty members who attend courses outside their own disciplines as students, completing all the activities and assignments required of students and leading seminar sessions with other students about their course experiences. The other team member will serve a complementary outsider role as in-depth interviewer of students, instructor, and master learner. By comparing and integrating the information gained through these insider-outsider roles, we will begin to define a common framework within which meaningful dialog about learning can occur.

f e l l o w s Nancy Siefer's and Elizabeth Skinner's project