September 30, 2020New Scholarship on Writing Beyond the University: Writers’ Complex Experiencesby Julia BleakneyNew studies seek to update the field of Writing Studies’ understanding of writing beyond the university by explaining how writers enter into and navigate these spheres, writers’ complex roles in non-curricular writing contexts, or the kinds of writing they conduct….
September 15, 2020A Complicated and Qualified Recommendation for Creating Groupsby David BuckAs a warning, I’m going to talk about methods again for part of this post because I can’t seem to help myself, but I will actually make a recommendation by the end, so there is a payoff if you bear…
September 10, 2020COVID-19: An Unexpected Adversary—and Ally—for Immersive Learning Researchby Phillip MotleyI was on sabbatical in the spring semester of 2019 and thus escaped much of the turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic that affected students and teachers alike at Elon University and most other institutions of higher education. While my colleagues…
September 7, 2020Ask your students: The value of student input on online course designby Sophia Abbot and Geneva SteinFor Jeongmin Cho, a junior at Princeton University from Seoul, South Korea, the transition to remote learning this spring was a transition to an entirely new form of teaching and learning. He explains, “I have grown up in a traditional…
September 4, 2020Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignmentby David BuckWith any group assignment, there are a number of decisions that need to be made before introducing the assignment to students. Some of those decisions have to do with features of the assignment (e.g., what will you assess and when…
September 1, 2020New Open Access Book: Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher EducationNow available in our Open Access Series Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres by Mick Healey, Kelly E. Matthews, and Alison Cook-Sather Writing about Learning and Teaching…