Analyzing a faculty online learning community as a mechanism for supporting faculty implementation of a guided-inquiry curriculum

International Journal of STEM Education

Table 2 Institutional context of faculty participating in the Next Gen PET FOLC

Institution type (n = 55)
Masters granting	60%
Doctoral granting	27%
Two-year college	7%
Primarily undergraduate	5%
Public	76%
Departmental affiliation (n = 42)
Physics/Physics & Astronomy	67%
Natural or Physical Science	29%
Education/Science Education	29%
Both a science department and education	24%

Institution type information was obtained from public sources for the 55 total participants. (The community has a total of 50 current members, but 5 of the original members had to drop out and were replaced by 5 new members.) Departmental affiliation was collected via a demographics survey administered to participants in December 2019. There were 42 responses to the survey (85% of participants)