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.
AI is everywhere we look, from the classroom to headlines to our devices. AI has swiftly become one of the most widely adopted technologies of this era. We often hear discussions about what AI can do and what it’s worth,…
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.
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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.
This is the second post in our three-part series reflecting on our student-faculty partnership. As described in prior literature, our partnership focused predominately on process-oriented questions related to pedagogy and classroom experiences, and not product-oriented changes to the course or curricula (Felten and Kupatadze 2026). This post…
In our previous blog post, students shared some of their perspectives on GenAI in higher education and reflections on interactions in the first of three summer meetings of the 2026-2028 research seminar on Rethinking Engaged Learning in the Age of…
In higher education, meaningful learning is based in supportive relationships, having courage to develop together, and contributing to a sense of shared growth. We the authors recently engaged in student-faculty partnerships in a lifespan development course focused on systemic racism…
In the pilot survey of undergraduate students’ views and values about data with my colleagues Drs. Kleintop, Carew, and Healy, I snuck in a question that I was particularly excited to see the results for. In this survey, students across five undergraduate courses…
In early July, the leadership team for the research seminar on Rethinking Engaged Learning in the Age of GenAI hosted the first of three summer meetings for seminar participants. Three CEL Student Scholars serve on our leadership team, and they have been integral to planning and delivering the July seminar meeting, which focused on helping multi-institutional teams plan three-year Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)…
In “What Does Data Say,” Cora Wigger described our pilot survey about how undergraduate students view, understand, and evaluate data. In the survey, we used a question that I often use in exams in my intro-level course on US History…
“Hello, my name is Claire. I got my bachelor’s degree in business management from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Now I am back in my home state of North Carolina in the Master of Arts in Higher Education (MHE) program at Elon University. My…
As traditional calendar schools and institutions begin their school years, educators might be supporting students to embark on evidence collection for their ePortfolios. This blog is especially for those who have used ePortfolios or ePortfolio-adjacent structures. The Association for Authentic,…
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