Apply to be a Winter 2025 Learning Fellow! Applications are due by 11/17. If you miss the due date, you can still apply but on-time applicants will be prioritized in hiring. Recruitment emails will go out to eligible students in past courses, however you are still welcome to apply if you did not receive a recruitment email and have taken an eligible course or have related experience.
Apply here: Winter Learning Fellow Application
We will be kicking off the 2024-2025 Learning Fellows Program with by welcoming our new and returning Learning Fellows and faculty to Orientation on September 16th from 5:30-7:00 in DCAL, Baker 102. We are looking forward to coming together to support active learning in Biology, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, and Latin this Fall term! Our Winter courses and LF application will be posted near the end of October! Keep your eyes open and reach out to us at LearningFellows@Dartmouth.edu for more information.
POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and Learning Fellows are a perfect match. Learn more about how to use POGIL in your LF course on this excellent PODCAST, or reach out to DCAL to find out more about POGIL or how you can utilize Dartmouth Learning Fellows in your classroom at LearningFellows@dartmouth.edu.
Spring Learning Fellows Applications are now open! Please visit our FAQ to find information and an apply to be a Spring LF! Applications are due Sunday, February 25th. Late applications will be considered but not prioritized.
10/3/2023, DCAL, 102 Baker Library, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Join the Learning Fellows Program for hors d’oeuvres and discussion as we celebrate the accomplishments of our last eight years and share our new directions! Beginning 24W, we will expand to work with more courses, dive deeper into field-specific teaching practices, and increase face time for faculty and fellows. These changes are based on the results of a comprehensive external analysis conducted in 2019-2021 as well as feedback from our faculty, students, past learning fellows, and course facilitators. Come find out how the program is changing and how it can work for you, whether you have been involved in the past or are thinking about taking part in the future.
Apply to be a Fall 2023 Learning Fellow! Applications are open now and are due August 21st. Recruitment emails will go out to eligible students in past courses, however you are still welcome to apply if you did not receive a recruitment email and have taken an eligible course. See student FAQs for more info.
I am delighted to announce that Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez joined the DCAL team as our Program Manager for Student Programs, with an immediate focus on the Learning Fellows Program, in mid-December 2022 – just in time to be involved in winter term preparation! Elizabeth has been working with 2 sections of Bio13 and joining huddles for many of the other winter 2023 LF courses. She’s working with Elaine to get us ready for Spring 2023 LF courses and taking the lead on organizing and updating all the program-related materials. She’ll work on updating this news page so it doesn’t take months to make important announcements and we don’t go years between posts. 🙂
Before coming to Dartmouth, Elizabeth served as Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Instruction in Temple University’s Department of Religion. She was actively involved in the Diamond Peer Teachers Program through which she mentored undergraduate fellows to facilitate discussions, run weekly learning sessions, and create their own assignments. Elizabeth has collaborated on many innovative teaching opportunities to improve learning for undergraduates in her own courses and campus-wide efforts at Temple. She has also devoted time and energy to community building and work on diversity, inclusion, and conflict management and brings project management experience working with faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students.
Do you like program management, working with students and faculty, and teaching? If so, you may want to apply to be Program Manager for Student Programs at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. In this role, you will oversee the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning’s (DCAL) programming and services for Dartmouth students. You will provide support, management, and coordination of DCAL’s student programs, including leading the Learning Fellows Program. You will collaborate with DCAL staff and campus partners in developing programs and resources to support students and educators at Dartmouth. For more information and to apply, please see this link.
Check out our poster presentation, “A Thriving Ecosystem of Learning Fellows at Dartmouth College” from the 2018 Learning Assistants Alliance International Conference 2018 in Boulder, CO at CU-Boulder.
Abstract:
What started as one course with three learning fellows in the summer of 2015 has grown to just over 40 courses and almost 130 Learning Fellows in the 2018/2019 academic year. Learn how we handle shorter 9-week terms through weekly course team “huddles” that include the learning fellows, professor(s), and a learning designer or faculty developer. The ecosystem we’ve created not only benefits student learning, but offers professors and learning fellows training in pedagogy, reflection, and course design as well as giving the learning designers and faculty developers deeper insight into courses, the undergraduate experience, and stronger collaborative relationships with faculty.
DCAL Receives Hearst Grant to Support Learning Fellows Program
HANOVER, NH July 19, 2018— On June 26, 2018, the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) was awarded a grant of $125,000 by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation to support the Dartmouth Learning Fellows Program. The grant will be used to sustain and increase capacity for the program, which pairs undergraduate students with academic faculty to design and deliver active learning opportunities in Dartmouth courses. Kate Norton in the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations played a pivotal role in supporting this effort.