CEL facilitates multi-institutional research on engaged learning topics. Participants from institutions around the world collaborate over three years, producing scholarship that shapes research and practice globally.
CEL is home to two book series. In addition, CEL research seminars and other initiatives have produced 100+ publications (to date).
CEL’s concise guides offer research-informed practices for engaged learning.
CEL’s concise guides offer practical strategies for studying engaged learning.
CEL brings together international leaders in higher education to develop, synthesize, and share rigorous research on central questions about student learning.
The CEL Scholar role and CEL Student Scholars program enable Elon faculty and students to deepen their understanding of and professional development in scholarly activity on engaged learning.
Anyone who has been a participant in a course delivered online through some type of digitally mediated platform (e.g., Zoom or Microsoft Teams), whether as the instructor or as a student, has likely made the observation that something feels different. Yes, online…
CEL research seminars facilitate multi-institutional research on engaged learning topics. Participants from higher education institutions around the world collaborate over three years, producing scholarship that shapes research and practice globally.
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As CEL Scholars, Elon faculty develop expertise in a specific aspect of engaged learning and produce resources and other scholarly activity on that topic.
CEL invites scholars to join our conversations about research-informed practices for engaged learning.
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CEL is home to two book series: the CEL Open Access Book Series and the CEL/Routledge Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching. View all CEL books.
CEL regularly produces videos featuring contemporary research and theories on engaged learning pedagogies and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Explore additional videos throughout our website, or browse the entire collection.
Making College “Worth it” – Season 3, Episode 6 Jessie and Nolan speak with Blake Colclasure and Tyler Granberry about their experiences teaching and studying multi-semester capstone research programs. They’re the authors of a recent Teaching & Learning Inquiry article, “Challenges and Supports Experienced by Students Completing a…
60-Second SoTL – Episode 75 Can ungrading work in a fully asynchronous online course? This episode features an open-access article that examines how an alternative grading approach shaped students’ motivation, stress, and learning in a fully online course: Emerson, Kerstin Gerst. 2026….
My first summer experience as a Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) Student Scholar began like a dance rehearsal full of uncertainty and curiosity. As a dancer, I’m used to entering unfamiliar spaces, hearing unfamiliar music, and trying to make sense of counts, movement, and intention. The early stages are always…
There are different origins and interpretations of what liberal education means, but a favorite of mine is the idea that a liberal education liberates. You gain the ability to think critically and to know how to learn, which liberates you to learn other things, enabling you to act in line with your values. Generative AI (GenAI) tools have…
60-Second SoTL – Episode 74 How can learning contracts support more equitable undergraduate research mentoring? This episode features an open-access article that explores how learning contracts can operationalize equity in undergraduate research mentoring by centering shared expectations, partnership, and transparency: McSweeney,…
In this series, I explore how the design of scholarly communication shapes the way readers engage with ideas. Across academic writing, teaching resources, and public scholarship, meaning is not carried by words alone. It is shaped by structure, sequencing, and…
Limed: Teaching with a Twist Season 4, Episode 6 In this episode, host Matt Wittstein joins fellow researchers Jenn Aumiller (University of Maryland School of Medicine), Sarah Burns Gilchrist (American University), and Alexis Hart (Allegheny College) to discuss their collaborative research on…
60-Second SoTL – Episode 73 How does time—including age, career stage, and historical moments—shape students-as-partners work in higher education? And what do we miss when we don’t explicitly account for it? This episode features a secondary qualitative analysis drawing on three…
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