The 3M National Teaching Fellowship is a national teaching award program that has recognized over 300 teachers at more than 80 Canadian universities for their teaching excellence and outstanding educational leadership. Despite its rich, 30 plus-year history, its impact has remained largely anecdotal. In this study, we build on Hannah and Lester’s (2009) original, multilevel approach that looks at interactions between the individual, network, and systems levels to explore the impact of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship program on furthering and enriching teaching and learning in higher education. Through the analysis of a large collection of program artefacts corroborated with in-depth interviews with 11 fellows (key informants), we were able to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which the program has had impact at the individual (micro), departmental (meso), institutional (macro), and national/international (mega) levels. In this article, we outline our scholarly exploration of the program’s influence and explore its role as a high-impact community of practice in higher education.

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3M 国家教学奖学金：高影响力的高等教育实践社区

3M 国家教学奖学金是一项国家教学奖励计划，已表彰了 80 多所加拿大大学的 300 多名教师的卓越教学和杰出的教育领导能力。尽管它拥有 30 多年的丰富历史，但其影响在很大程度上仍然是轶事。在本研究中，我们以 Hannah 和 Lester (2009) 的原创、多层次方法为基础，该方法着眼于个人、网络和系统层次之间的相互作用，以探索 3M 国家教学奖学金计划对促进和丰富高等教育教学和学习的影响。教育。通过对大量项目人工制品的分析以及对 11 位研究员（关键知情人）的深入采访，我们能够更深入地了解该项目对个人（微观）产生影响的方式，部门（中观）、机构（宏观）和国家/国际（大型）级别。在本文中，我们概述了对该计划影响力的学术探索，并探讨了其作为高等教育中具有高影响力的实践社区的作用。