May 20, 2020Mind the Gap – Webinar SeriesThe Center for Engaged Learning is pleased to host a free webinar series to support conversations about Mind the Gap: Global Learning at Home and Abroad, which showcases recent, multi-institutional research related to global learning. The webinar series features the collection editors and…
May 14, 2020Mentoring Undergraduate Research during a PandemicIn 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…
May 12, 2020The Power of Partnership, Section Two: The Intersticesby Sophia AbbotSection 2 of The Power of Partnership is called “Intersections.” Sam Hester’s opening illustration for the section fully embraces this theme. She visually disrupts boundaries and juxtaposes apparent opposites, suggesting that the space where those opposites meet — the “and”…
May 8, 2020Research on Immersive Learning: How to Know When Enough is Enough?by Phillip MotleyIn short order, I’ll have collected close to 25 interviews with colleagues who are involved in some way with immersive learning. Most of the interviews are with Elon faculty and staff, but a few are from colleagues at other institutions….
May 5, 2020Academic book publishing: What happens during developmental editing?by Jessie L. Moore“developmental editing. Editorial intervention, usually at an early stage, to help the author with structure, substance, or other fundamental elements of a manuscript. Compare with copyediting and line editing.” Peter Ginna, What Editors Do, p. 278 The Center for Engaged Learning produces two…
April 23, 2020The Power of Partnership, Section One: A Series of Partnership Actsby Sophia AbbotThe first section of The Power of Partnership is called “Power and Politics” and focuses on the way power and hierarchy impact our ability to connect with one another across roles in meaningful partnerships in teaching and learning. When Lucy…
April 7, 2020Immersion is a Structure, and a Constructby Phillip MotleyThe coronavirus pandemic has slowed, but not stopped, my investigation of immersive learning practices in higher education. In particular, my plans to conduct in-person interviews of university teaching faculty about their experiences with immersive learning have been delayed. However, due…
April 2, 2020Critical Mentoring is Custom Fitted to the Studentby Buffie Longmire-AvitalThere is no shortage of research on the importance of mentorship within high impact practices for students from underrepresented minority backgrounds. We know that mentorship builds resilience (Inman, 2020; Ramos 2019) and facilitates retention (Davis, 2017; Wilson et al., 2012),…
March 30, 2020Generative Disagreements in Student-Faculty Partnershipsby Sophia AbbotRecently, colleagues at Elon discussed two new publications in the Center for Engaged Learning’s Open Access Book Series: Pedagogical Partnerships and The Power of Partnership. Folks in these conversations repeatedly returned to the challenge of working through the disagreements that…
March 10, 2020Defining the Characteristics of Immersive Learningby Phillip MotleyAttempting to fully define the characteristics of immersive learning is a distinct challenge. What pedagogies count and which ones don’t? Is there a specific line in the sand that demarcates what is and isn’t immersive learning, and if so, where…