The Academic Commons is a virtual community of practice (based on the WordPress platform) intended to support digital scholarship and digital citizenship at Georgia Gwinnett College. The Commons is an online environment that allows faculty to collaborate and share their research, scholarship, and teaching successes with their colleagues. The Commons also provides a platform for displaying faculty badges earned through the CTE’s badging initiative, and for establishing a digital identity, allowing faculty to create, maintain, and control their own digital narrative.

GGC Academic Commons Mission Statement:

The Academic Commons of Georgia Gwinnett College is designed to support faculty initiatives for teaching and learning through the use of technology. An open and free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across disciplines and institutions is the core to equipping twenty-first century students for our modern world and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty in research and teaching. Faculty can showcase their own research or a class project with their students to add to public scholarship. The Academic Commons is a dynamic hub of teaching and learning scholarship for the ever-evolving nature of Higher Education. In this sense it is designed to be flexible and scaleable. This community will help prepare Georgia Gwinnett College for the future of education.