## Abstract Faculty learning communities have many attributes that can contribute to the successful preparation of graduate students as future faculty members.
Cooperative learning for faculty: Building communities of practice
โ Scribed by Jennifer Loertscher
- Publisher
- The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 36 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1470-8175
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