Center for Engaged Learning

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. …

Collaborative Projects and Assignments

by David Buck The high-impact educational practice (HIP) that I’m studying and writing about for the next two years is “collaborative projects and assignments.” Part of the reason that I selected this topic was because it was one of the …

Lessons Learned from Mentoring Undergraduate Research this Summer

Salient Practices of Undergraduate Research Mentoring by Eric E. Hall, Elizabeth Bailey, Simon Higgins, Takudzwa Madzima, Svetlana Nepocatych, Matthew W. Wittstein, and Caroline J. Ketcham This past March, as universities were transitioning to distance learning, in addition to figuring out …

Teaching Service-Learning Online or in Hybrid/Flex Models

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 …

Learning Communities Matter in Times of Crisis

Editor’s Note: This statement was crafted by the National Learning Community Collaborative (representatives listed below) and is shared with their permission. Several members of the collaborative participated in the Center’s 2017-2019 research seminar on Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact …

The Power of Partnership, Section 3: Growing Partnership

by Sophia Abbot Lucy Mercer-Mapstone and I started The Power of Partnership to explicitly explore some of the unexamined challenges and bumps-in-the-road of partnership. So, why do we include a whole section titled, “Growing Partnership” (Section 3)? Many critical pedagogues …

The Power of Partnership, Section Two: The Interstices

by Sophia Abbot Section 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 Power of Partnership, Section One: A Series of Partnership Acts

by Sophia Abbot The 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 …

Immersion is a Structure, and a Construct

by Phillip Motley The 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 …

Critical Mentoring is Custom Fitted to the Student

by Buffie Longmire-Avital There 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 …

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