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A Complicated and Qualified Recommendation for Creating Groups

by David Buck As 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 …

written by admin on September 15, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Studying EL with no comments

COVID-19: An Unexpected Adversary—and Ally—for Immersive Learning Research

COVID-19: An Unexpected Adversary—and Ally—for Immersive Learning Research

by Phillip Motley I 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. …

written by admin on September 10, 2020 in Immersive Learning and Studying EL with no comments

Ask your students: The value of student input on online course design

by Sophia Abbot and Geneva Stein For 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 …

written by admin on September 7, 2020 in Doing EL and Online education and Student Voices and Student-Faculty Partnership with no comments

Students working at a table with text overlay, "Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignment"

Beware of Simple Universal Recommendations about Group Assignment

by David Buck With 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 …

written by admin on September 4, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Studying EL with no comments

New Open Access Book: Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Now 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 …

written by admin on September 1, 2020 in CEL News and Open Access Books and Publishing SoTL and Studying EL with no comments

Service-learning/Community Engagement Opportunities and Immersive Learning

Service-learning/Community Engagement Opportunities and Immersive Learning

by Phillip Motley Like many higher education institutions, Elon University is many things, including a place of opportunity and possibility. Since my last blog post, I was selected to serve as Elon’s next Faculty Fellow for Service-Learning and Community Engagement …

written by admin on August 25, 2020 in Immersive Learning and Service-Learning with no comments

Designing Online or Hybrid/Flex Study Away Experiences

Designing Online or Hybrid/Flex Study Away Experiences.

In response to shifts to online learning due to COVID-19 in spring 2020 and in anticipation of alternate models for higher education in fall 2020 and beyond, we have curated publications and online resources that can help inform programmatic and …

written by admin on August 24, 2020 in COVID-19 and Doing EL and Global Learning and Online education and Resources with no comments

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Academic Book Publishing: Cover Design

by Jennie Goforth There is little in the book production process that creates as much excitement (and often, disagreement) as the design of the book cover. Every author wants a cover that conveys their enthusiasm for the content within, a …

written by Jennie Goforth on August 20, 2020 in Open Access Books and Publishing SoTL and Stylus Books with no comments

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What Makes Workplace Writing Meaningful?

by Julia Bleakney What factors related to college writing make it meaningful to students? Are these the same factors that make workplace writing meaningful to alumni?  The meaningfulness of college writing is an important concept for educators and administrators. In …

written by admin on August 12, 2020 in Doing EL and Engaged Learning and Writing with no comments

Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?

by David Buck Are group assignments effective pedagogy or a waste of time? This is the question asked by researcher Michael Thom (2020) in his recent paper examining the scholarship on collaborative pedagogy. To be clear, I’m being literal here. …

written by admin on August 6, 2020 in Collaborative Projects and Assignments and Doing EL and Studying EL with no comments

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