In the summer of 2013, ACRL offered its first Teaching with Technology track in its intensive Immersion program. This track aimed to "provide a practical and design-minded framework for evaluating instructional technologies in order to integrate them more effectively into face to face and/or online teaching."~1 A small cohort of tech-interested librarians worked over four weeks to achieve this aim, but an important component of any such program must be diffusion: participants need to take the knowledge gained and share it widely in order for it to impact library practices broadly. Determining how to best and most effectively share such intensive experiences can be challenging. One academic librarian used her experiences from the 2013 ACRL Teaching with Technology track to create, develop, and cultivate a library faculty learning community at her institution. This intentional, grounded, individualized professional development initiative in instructional technology exposed library faculty at Oakland University to instructional design and systems theories, and may be useful to other academic librarians seeking to develop these areas of knowledge and practice.
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