April 15, 2024Designing an Interdisciplinary Capstone, Part 2: Student Perspectivesby Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 2, Episode 8 In this episode, we finish our conversation about designing a capstone course for a new Global Film and Cultures minor at Elon University. Student panelists from Elon University, Gianna Smurro and Mia…
March 18, 2024Designing an Interdisciplinary Capstone, Part 1: Faculty Perspectivesby Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 2, Episode 7 Designing an interdisciplinary capstone course is a challenging task that presents an opportunity to innovate. Lina Kuhn and Kai Swanson from Elon University join the show to get some advice on how…
January 8, 2024ePortfolios as Capstone Experienceby Jessie L. Moore and Nolan SchultheisMaking College “Worth It” – Season 1, Episode 7 In this episode, we visit with Carol Van Zile-Tamsen, associate vice provost for curriculum, assessment, and teaching transformation at the University at Buffalo, about UB’s ePortfolio capstone requirement for general education….
October 23, 2023Capitalizing on Capstone Experiencesby Jessie L. Moore and Nolan SchultheisMaking College “Worth It” – Season 1, Episode 4 Caroline Ketcham and Tony Weaver, co-editors of Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning, share strategies for faculty and students to make the most of these high-impact opportunities for…
October 6, 2021Inclusive Capstone Experiences, Pathways, and Pipelinesby Caroline J. KetchamCapstones as a high-impact practice are intended to provide students with the opportunity to integrate their learning across the undergraduate experience, often applying their knowledge to solve problems or ask questions while promoting student agency (Ketcham, Weaver, Moore, and Felten,…
November 19, 2020Elon Statement on Capstone ExperiencesFrom 2018 to 2020, twenty-two scholars participated in the Center for Engaged Learning research seminar on Capstone Experiences, co-led by Caroline Ketcham (Elon University), Jillian Kinzie (Indiana University), and Tony Weaver (Elon University). The seminar fostered international, multi-institutional research on capstone…
October 7, 20192020 Conference on Engaged Learning – Call for ProposalsJune 21-22, 2020 | Elon University, North Carolina The annual Conference on Engaged Learning showcases cutting-edge research on engaged learning. Each annual conference features multi-institutional research from a specific Center for Engaged Learning research seminar, invites research updates from past seminar…
August 27, 2019Communicating the Goals of Capstonesby Tony Weaver and Caroline J. KetchamGeorge Bernard Shaw once said, “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Over the next year, as 2018-2020 CEL research seminar participants continue to contemplate the future of the capstone experience, we cannot…
January 9, 2018The Art of the Capstoneby Tony WeaverMy colleague Dr. Caroline Ketcham wrote in a recent blog post that the work of creating effective capstone experiences “does matter and will matter to students, faculty, and institutions that are developing and implementing capstone experiences aimed at transformation and…
October 5, 2017Inspiring Student Ownership of Capstoneby Caroline J. KetchamAs many of us know in higher education, our lens is constantly changing and therefore our work as a teacher-scholar-mentor is also ever evolving. I am in my 11th year of teaching at Elon University. I have taught multiple capstone…
