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.
Peer leadership opportunities are not formally recognized as a High Impact Practice (HIP) by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U); however, peer leadership has been described as a candidate for a next-generation HIP (Kuh 2017). In a previous…
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.
In the last blog post, I discussed my initial plans for feedback this semester. A few insights have helped me to plan effective feedback strategies. The feedback loop (Clark and Talbert 2023) structures students’ engagement with feedback they receive to…
Student leadership programs in higher education often promise to shape future leaders, but how well do they deliver on this promise? While leadership development programs are widely implemented in colleges and universities, scholars and practitioners continue to debate their definitions,…
Making College Worth It – Season 2, Episode 6 In this episode, guest hosts Ellie MacMillan, Kassidy Puckett, and Carolina Martinez consider the impact service learning has on career development, social cohesion, and community involvement. Joining them are Elon University’s…
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has defined high impact practices (HIPs) as experiences that promote student success which is determined by academic achievement, persistence, satisfaction, attainment of educational objectives, and acquisition of desired learning outcomes (Kuh 2017)….
Generative AI is great at writing to a script. I have a waking nightmare, of sorts, involving AI and email: someone writes to me by prompting an AI system with a topic. I feel I need to reply, but I’m…
Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Season 3, Episode 6 The first-year seminar is a challenging, yet impactful, space to introduce habits of mind that lead to long-term student success. In this episode, Adam Keul, Associate Professor of Tourism and…
As I continue to explore literature on models of assessment and feedback, the importance of feedback and feedback literacy has emerged as an ongoing theme. At the time of this writing, my colleagues and I are preparing for the spring…
As a teacher in higher education, it’s easy to feel pressure to have my graduates job-market ready, and at my university, we have had some engaging discussions about how well we should prepare students to use AI on the job….
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