June 23, 2016The Undergraduate ExperienceInside Higher Ed recently reviewed The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most, a new book by the Center’s Executive Director Peter Felten and co-authors John Gardner (John N. Gardner Institute), Charles Schroeder (former vice chancellor for student affairs…
June 21, 2016Issues in male student choices for global and domestic off-campus experiencesby Amanda Sturgill As I am teaching in Costa Rica this term, one thing I notice in the classrooms at the partner university is how much the women outnumber the men. This imbalance exemplifies a national trend. An Institute of…
June 16, 2016What Matters Most in the Undergraduate ExperienceBetsy Barefoot (John N. Gardner Institute), Peter Felten (Elon University), John Gardner (John N. Gardner Institute), Leo Lambert (Elon University), and Charles Schroeder (Higher Education Consultant) discuss what matters most in the Undergraduate Experience: This video was produced by the…
June 14, 2016Working at the intersection of Global Learning and Service-Learningby Amanda Sturgill Hi from Central America, where I am teaching a group of students from my university, who are learning here for 4 months. They take an intensive language course, then a mix of regular courses at a partner…
March 3, 2016Productive Disruptions: Thinking Globally, Locallyby Jessie L. Moore In January I posited that four productive disruptions (scaling access, building partnerships, thinking globally locally, and closing the loop with the scholarship of teaching and learning) can foster creative problem-solving about learning initiatives on our campuses. In this post, I…
March 1, 2016The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) & Promotions and Tenureby Jessie L. Moore Like other types of scholarship, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has markers of excellence. In “Principles of Good Practice in SoTL,” Peter Felten (2013) identifies five of those markers: Working in partnership with students…
February 16, 2016Multi-Institutional Research on Global LearningThrough the Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience research seminar, the Center is supporting multi-institutional research on study abroad and off-campus domestic study. This video highlights the seminar’s developing inquiry projects: We look forward to providing updates on the outcomes of this…
February 11, 2016Small Steps, Big Impact in Student Engagementby Susannah McGowan Recently, I facilitated a workshop on student learning referencing the Freeman et. al. paper on Active Learning in Math, Science and Engineering. Briefly, the Freeman et. al. paper from the National Academy of Sciences embarked on a…
February 9, 2016High-Priority Questions about Global LearningHundreds of thousands of students study abroad and in off-campus domestic study for academic credit each year, and many universities identify these experiences as high-impact practices that augment on-campus global learning. Although a solid body of research has investigated the…
February 4, 2016Productive Disruptions: Building Partnershipsby Jessie L. Moore Last month I posited that four productive disruptions (scaling access, building partnerships, thinking globally locally, and closing the loop with the scholarship of teaching and learning) can foster creative problem-solving about learning initiatives on our campuses. In this post, I…