TY - CHAP A1 - Blotevogel, Thomas A1 - Riegler, Peter A1 - Mikhailova, Inna A1 - Niebler, Christine T1 - What has become different – participants’ transformations in a Decoding Learning Community T2 - EuroSoTL 2025 - Book of Abstracts N2 - Decoding the Disciplines is a way of doing SoTL that focuses on identifying barriers to student learning and helping students to overcome them. The Decoding Learning Community is a group of instructors and faculty developers in Germany who intend to build on that. Within its six years of existence, the group’s work has contributed at least 25 publications to the SoTL-community at large. Viewing this group as an artefact allows to learn about what people attracts people to Decoding, what helps them to practice Decoding, and what they gain from doing so. We asked members of this community what has become different due to their membership. The answers readily fall into patterns. Not unexpectedly one pattern aligns with the theme of this conference: making connections – between faculty and developers, between learning theory and teaching practice, between expertise and student learning. Other patterns, however, have been quite unexpected up to the point that aspects one might hope members would mention were not covered at all. (No spoiling information will be given here.) We will connect these findings to related work on communities of practice. In terms of conference pedagogy, the presentation will employ elements of immersive theater with members of the learning community dialoging with the audience from within the auditory. KW - Decoding The Disciplines KW - Faculty development KW - Persönlichkeitsentwicklung KW - Hochschullehre Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:863-opus-60212 PB - University of Groningen CY - Groningen ER -