March 1, 2016The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) & Promotions and Tenureby Jessie L. Moore Like other types of scholarship, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has markers of excellence. In “Principles of Good Practice in SoTL,” Peter Felten (2013) identifies five of those markers: Working in partnership with students…
February 4, 2016Productive Disruptions: Building Partnershipsby Jessie L. Moore Last month I posited that four productive disruptions (scaling access, building partnerships, thinking globally locally, and closing the loop with the scholarship of teaching and learning) can foster creative problem-solving about learning initiatives on our campuses. In this post, I…
January 12, 2016Productive Disruptions: Scaling Accessby Jessie L. Moore Last week I posited that four productive disruptions (scaling access, building partnerships, thinking globally locally, and closing the loop with the scholarship of teaching and learning) can put pressure on our understanding of engaged learning and our…
January 5, 2016Productive Disruptions in Engaged Learning Practicesby Jessie L. Moore In his 2013 book, Engaged Learning in the Academy: Challenges and Possibilities, David Thornton Moore writes that effective engaged learning pedagogies “induce the learner to look carefully at her experience, to question her own assumptions, to…
September 29, 2015Recommendations for practitioners and advocates of residential learning communities (part 1 of 2)by Peter Felten, Jessie L. Moore, and Jon Dooley 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. To learn more about the think…
August 25, 2015Students' Tips for Future Undergraduate Researchersby Jessie L. Moore A growing number of publications offer tips for faculty, undergraduate research programs, and institutions about how to support undergraduate research (UR). The Council on Undergraduate Research’s (CUR) Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research, for example, identifies core features…
August 11, 2015Recommendations for new research on residential colleges, learning communities, and other academic-residential partnershipsby Peter Felten, Jon Dooley, and Jessie L. Moore 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…
August 4, 2015Mentor-Mentee Relationships in Undergraduate Researchby Jessie L. Moore Faculty mentors play a significant role in making undergraduate research (UR) a high-impact educational practice. Kuh and O’Donnell (2013) contend that the deepest engagement in UR occurs when students participate in all aspects of the research process…
July 28, 2015Student Perspectives on the Value of Undergraduate Researchby Jessie L. Moore As a high-impact educational practice, undergraduate research (UR) can have significant impacts on student learning. UR can lead to better student retention and engagement (Kuh, 2008) and foster deep student learning of critical thinking, effective communication,…
January 13, 2015Arts & Humanities Methodologies and SoTLby Jessie L. Moore 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…