September 1, 2020New Open Access Book: Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher EducationNow 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…
August 6, 2020Are Group Assignments a Waste of Time?by David BuckAre 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. The title of…
August 4, 2020A Snapshot of Employers’ Expectations of Graduates’ Skills and Abilities in Technical Communicationsby Paula RosinskiIn a previous blog post, Julia Bleakney discussed some of the methods and documents that researchers have used to “capture employers’ expectations for the communication skills and abilities of college graduates in technical and engineering fields.” In this blog, I’ll…
July 21, 2020Academic Book Publishing: Typesettingby Jennie GoforthWelcome 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, and having your book copyedited. In…
July 6, 2020What even is a HIP?by David Buck(Understanding HIPs through a Theoretical Model – Part 2) In my previous post, I started deconstructing the idea of high impact practices (HIPs), with the goal of articulating a definition that would be useful to researchers and teachers. To do…
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…
February 7, 2020Academic book publishing: What happens during copyediting?by Jennie GoforthThis post is the second installment of CEL’s series on the process of academic book publishing. We are demystifying the process of how your research becomes a final product. If you missed our first post, check out Jessie Moore on…
January 23, 2020High-Impact Undergraduate Experiences and How They Matter to College GraduatesJessie L. Moore and Peter Felten will present at AAC&U 2020 on Thursday, January 23rd, 5:15-6:15 PM, to share results from the Center’s 2019 national survey of college graduates, conducted in partnership with the Elon Poll. Download their presentation slides…
January 9, 2020How do researchers access employers for their studies of workplace writing? by Julia BleakneyIn this blog post, I discuss the methods and documents researchers have used to capture employers’ expectations for the communication skills and abilities of college graduates in technical and engineering fields. These studies take as a “given” previous studies’ claims…