Inspired by European initiatives and by calls across the United States for higher education to be more accountable for student learning, the American Historical Association has coordinated a nationwide, faculty-led project on Tuning the History Discipline in the United States…

The Center for Engaged Learning is pleased to announce the Conference on Excellent Practices in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, which will take place July 24-25, 2016, at Elon University, in Elon, North Carolina. The conference will feature a keynote address by George…

In the second summer of the CEL seminar on Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (UR), participants worked to identify the key characteristics of mentoring relationships in the context of student, faculty and institutional development.  We identified factors that contribute to…

In July 2015, Elon’s Center for Engaged Learning hosted a three-day think tank on residential learning communities that brought together a dozen scholars and practitioners (participants are listed below). Learning communities have been defined in a wide variety of ways…

Any time you are studying student learning is a good time to make sure that your intended study is ethical and beneficial. Studying student learning in a global context means the people your students are learning with, such as providers,…

What are the significant questions and challenges in mentoring undergraduate research? We asked participants in the Center’s research seminar on Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research to share the pressing questions they’re identifying. Those questions include: What are the salient characteristics and boundaries…

I had the opportunity to take a group of graduate students to Costa Rica in January for a project. Our Interactive Project for the Public Good course is the centerpiece of our master’s program  and combines project-based learning with very…

Just in time for the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Centennial Annual Meeting, the Center is pleased to release a series of video interviews with Ashley Finley about assessment in higher education. Finley is the senior director of…

Last week’s post provided an introduction to what the “habits and values and methods” of the Arts and Humanities look like when applied to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Extending that discussion, Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Susan Conkling (Boston…

Although the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) crosses disciplines, one tension in SoTL centers around what counts as SoTL, particularly in terms of methods and methodologies. Although some SoTL questions may merit social science methods, as Pat Hutchings suggests, SoTL should draw…