Center for Engaged Learning | Open Access Books

Academic Book Publishing: Why Publish Open Access?

by Jennie Goforth As regular readers of this blog will know, in 2019 the Center for Engaged Learning launched a brand-new initiative – the Open Access Book Series. We became part of the global movement to make research free and …

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 …

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 …

Academic Book Publishing: Typesetting

by Jennie Goforth Welcome to another post in our series on the process of academic book publishing! We’re taking you through all the steps, from writing and submitting your proposal, working with your editor on the development of your manuscript, …

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 …

Generative Disagreements in Student-Faculty Partnerships

by Sophia Abbot Recently, 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 …

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