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November 24, 2022

Staff Experiences Supporting Students from Equity Groups

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 13 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Studies in Higher Education and examines academic and support staff members’ experiences supporting low socio-economic status and non-traditional students: Macqueen, Suzanne, Erica Southgate, and Jill Scevak. (2022). “Supporting students from equity groups:…

A map of the world showing countries where users have downloaded CEL's open access books. At the top reads "A Global Audience: The books in the Center for Engaged Learning's Open Access Book Series have been viewed by scholars in 124 countries across the globe." In Dec 2019-Aug 2022: 20,736 unique pageviews. Countries with 1000+ pageviews: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan. Countries with 100-999 pageviews: Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, New Zealand, Austria, Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, France, South Africa, Malaysia, and Norway. Countries with 1-100 pageviews: most of the countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and several in Africa.

November 22, 2022

Open Access and Usage: Downloads, Citations, and Geographic Diversity

by Jennie Goforth

A common motivation for authors choosing to publish open access is a desire to reach a larger, broader audience (Pyne et al. 2019). And although usage statistics can be complex and many publishers are secretive about their print runs, research…

November 21, 2022

Place-Based Learning Along the Duwamish

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 3 Dr. Ben Machado, from South Seattle College, recently received a grant to incorporate place-based learning into his introductory biology classroom. Panelists Kelsey Bitting, Scott Morrison, and Dani Toma-Harrold provide ideas and insight…

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November 17, 2022

Feedback Encounters

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 12 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education and explores feedback encounters as a framework for studying feedback processes: Jensen, Lasse X., Margaret Bearman, and David Boud. 2022. “Feedback Encounters:…

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November 15, 2022

Mentoring for Learner Success: Multiple Pathways to Mentoring Relationships

by Jessie L. Moore and Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler

Mentoring relationships develop in relationship-rich environments (Vandermaas-Peeler and Moore 2022). In higher education contexts, they might evolve from other meaningful relationships like teaching, advising, supervising, and coaching, but they require time to become more reciprocal and mutually beneficial (Mullen and…

November 10, 2022

Teaching Race and Racial Justice

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 11 This episode features the Nancy Chick Article of the Year for the 2021 volume of Teaching and Learning Inquiry (announced at the 2022 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference) and examines course-planning…

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November 8, 2022

Faculty Mentors Start Here! Part 2: Diving Deeper on Setting Up Internships for Success

by CJ Fleming

Welcome back internship mentors! Last time we looked at the initial startup process for internships. Now, I’ll look further into great internship course assignments, your work to setup the student and the site for success, and resources that helped me…

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November 3, 2022

Outcomes of Supervisor and Mentor Support in Internships

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 10 This week’s episode features a recent article from the open access International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning and explores how supervisor and mentor support shape students’ outcomes in internship experiences: Ali, Abdifatah A., Philip Gardner, and Brandy Edmondson….

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November 1, 2022

Faculty Mentors Start Here! Mentoring Undergraduate Internships When You’re New to the Game

by CJ Fleming

Part 1: Initial Set-Up Considerations When I was a new faculty member in 2015, I came out of the gate eager to facilitate internships for my students. Because of my background in clinical psychology, in which practical experiences are essential…

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October 27, 2022

Undergraduate Research and Student Well-Being

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 9 This week’s episode features a recent open-access article from Studies in Higher Education and explores how engaging in authentic, mentored undergraduate research can contribute to student well-being: Walkington, Helen, and Belinda Ommering. 2022. “How Does…