CEL facilitates multi-institutional research on engaged learning topics. Participants from institutions around the world collaborate over three years, producing scholarship that shapes research and practice globally.
CEL is home to two book series. In addition, CEL research seminars and other initiatives have produced 100+ publications (to date).
CEL’s concise guides offer research-informed practices for engaged learning.
CEL’s concise guides offer practical strategies for studying engaged learning.
CEL brings together international leaders in higher education to develop, synthesize, and share rigorous research on central questions about student learning.
The CEL Scholar role and CEL Student Scholars program enable Elon faculty and students to deepen their understanding of and professional development in scholarly activity on engaged learning.
In this post and a series of student contributions that follow, we describe a summer project where we engaged with students doing transcription work of historical archival documents. While the original conception of the project started off as purely oriented…
CEL research seminars facilitate multi-institutional research on engaged learning topics. Participants from higher education institutions around the world collaborate over three years, producing scholarship that shapes research and practice globally.
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As CEL Scholars, Elon faculty develop expertise in a specific aspect of engaged learning and produce resources and other scholarly activity on that topic.
CEL invites scholars to join our conversations about research-informed practices for engaged learning.
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CEL is home to two book series: the CEL Open Access Book Series and the CEL/Routledge Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching. View all CEL books.
CEL regularly produces videos featuring contemporary research and theories on engaged learning pedagogies and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Explore additional videos throughout our website, or browse the entire collection.
What can research on mentoring teach us about building stronger, more equitable learning environments? In this episode, guests Ashley Finley, Jane Greer, and Jessie Moore unpack the scholarly roots of mentoring in higher education from foundational studies to the newest…
I had to chuckle over this quote in a May New York Times article: “Though they are useful in some situations—like writing term papers, summarizing office documents and generating computer code—their mistakes can cause problems.” I think many of my fellow academics would see…
60-Second SoTL – Episode 62 What do university teachers say they need from professional development related to teaching and learning? This episode focuses on an open-access article on participants’ self-identified learning needs in professional development programs for professors, senior scientific staff,…
When I, along with my CEL Scholar colleague Dr. Cora Wigger, describe our CEL project about data literacy and data justice to colleagues, we’re confronted with the same problem: every academic in every discipline defines “data” differently. As a historian…
Making College “Worth It” – Season 3, Episode 1 In this episode we explore how generative AI is influencing current writing pedagogies in higher education. We speak with Dr. Mandy Olejnik, Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Miami…
60-Second SoTL – Episode 60 How much time should students have to take online, multiple-choice tests? That’s the focus of the open-access Teaching & Learning Inquiry article featured in this week’s 60-second SoTL: Kennette, Lynne N., and Dawn McGuckin. 2025. “Best…
I am a professor of journalism, and it’s a challenging time to make the case for why journalism still matters. I give my students a couple of reasons: first is the ability to access and make sense of a variety…
Since publishing Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff in 2023, I’ve had several opportunities to brainstorm with educators about how the key practices apply in their higher education settings and with their diverse students….
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