In addition, pairs of fellows will visit each other's courses throughout the semester in which they are taught. Fellows will be encouraged to publish papers or give conference talks on the application of new ideas about freshman learning to their disciplines. They will also be required to give at least one presentation to a high school or civic group outside Bloomington. If students aren't actively reconstructing knowledge in their heads, they don't retain the information long. Connections between students can be used to facilitate student learning.
Classrooms are communities.
Students who know the material can more thoroughly learn it when they help someone else. This isn't simply a question of applying universal strategies, however. Hence the FLP's emphasis on tailoring methods by discipline. We're very concerned with what and how students learn. This involves not only questions of subject matter and pedagogy, but also questions of campus life, of social changes, and of diversity among students.