December 19, 2017Studying Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact Practiceby Shannon LundeenDuring our first summer seminar meeting of the 2017-2019 research seminar on Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact Practice, the room was brimming with excitement and anticipation as scholars and practitioners from across the U.S. and Canada wondered who they…
December 12, 2017Student-Faculty Partnership and Engaged Learningby Ketevan Kupatadze“Student consultants and faculty members forge partnerships outside of the regular teacher/student relationship, explore dimensions of teaching and learning not generally discussed outside of education courses, and model for the entire community a form of collaboration that challenges traditional role…
December 6, 2017Residential Learning Communities in the Higher Education Environmentby Cara McFaddenA growing body of scholarship, particularly theories about student learning and development, helps us understand the rich potential for residential learning communities as a space for that integration – and helps us identify gaps for further study. As students transition…
November 14, 2017An example of student-faculty partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeDr. Tine Wirenfeldt Jensen, a colleague of mine from Denmark, is an educational consultant and has a long-standing experience with partnering with students to design pedagogical tools that are simultaneously educational, intellectually engaging, and fun. Tine designed an educational board…
October 24, 2017Vulnerabilities in Student-Faculty Partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeSeveral questions came up this semester as I tried to use some of the strategies of student-faculty partnership in a course that I teach and as I reflected on the reactions that I received from students. The questions I would…
October 10, 2017Process-Driven Model of Educationby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog I will continue reflecting on the various ways in which the student-faculty partnership model could challenge or simply take a different approach towards the established higher education system. Here I focus on Students-as-Partner’s emphasis on the open…
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…
September 25, 2017Democratic Teaching Model?by Ketevan Kupatadze“Although advocates for liberal education frequently cite the goal of developing skills necessary for students to function as democratic citizens (such as critical thinking, recognition and understanding of multiple perspectives, and the employment of scrutiny and reason), the actual teaching…
September 6, 20172018-2020 CEL Scholar – Call for ApplicationsThe Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) is pleased to invite applications from Elon faculty for the 2018-2020 Center for Engaged Learning Scholar. During a two-year appointment, CEL Scholars will develop expertise in a specific aspect of engaged learning and will…
August 29, 2017Challenging the Consumer-Based Model of Educationby Ketevan KupatadzeResearch around student-faculty partnership suggests that such partnership challenges Western higher education systems in several important ways. Student-faculty partnership or Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning: destabilizes the existing consumer-oriented model of teaching and learning (Cook Sather et al.,…