If I were to introduce myself through the work of an ePortfolio, it might have artifacts from three big buckets, all shaping who I am as an educator and as an Elon University Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) scholar:  What Is…

60-Second SoTL – Episode 89 How can the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) grow when inquiry on teaching and learning isn’t recognized or valued within an institution? This episode features an open-access chapter on cultivating SoTL in institutional contexts…

In my first summer as a team leader for Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) three-year, multi-institutional research seminar on Learning on Location, I had the opportunity to lead a workshop on how to inventory space from a choreographer’s perspective for a…

60-Second SoTL – Episode 88 What do students value most in college? This episode features an open-access report on a national survey of 872 undergraduate students about the college experiences they value: Humphrey, Dana, and Ashley Finley. 2026. What Students…

In earlier posts in this series, we explored how readers manage cognitive load, how they navigate texts non-linearly, and how visuals shape interpretation and argument. Underneath all of these conversations is another foundational issue: accessibility. Accessibility influences whether readers can meaningfully engage with scholarship in the first…