Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching
A Long View of Undergraduate Research: Alumni Perspectives on Inquiry, Belonging, and Vocation
1st Edition
By Kristine Johnson, J. Michael Rifenburg
November 08, 2024
Drawing from in-depth interviews with alumni across the disciplines, this book explores the benefits of undergraduate research: meaningful intellectual engagement, a sense of belonging in the campus community, and vocational clarity and career success after college. What matters to alumni about ...
Learning on Location: Place-Based Approaches for Diverse Learners in Higher Education
1st Edition
By Ashley J. Holmes
November 02, 2023
This book offers an innovative framework and set of pedagogical pathways for deepening college student learning through critical engagement with place. Though the what and how of teaching and learning rightly take center stage in research of best practices, this book argues that the where of ...
Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff
1st Edition
By Jessie L. Moore
April 25, 2023
This book emerges from the author’s ongoing work as director of Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning, where for the past decade, more than 200 scholars from over 120 post-secondary institutions across more than a dozen countries have participated in multi-institutional scholarship of ...
Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline J. Ketcham, Anthony G. Weaver, Jessie L. Moore
January 24, 2023
Capstones have been a part of higher education curriculum for over two centuries, with the goal of integrating student learning to cap off their undergraduate experience. In practice, capstones are most often delivered as a course or include a significant project that addresses a problem or ...
The Faculty Factor: Developing Faculty Engagement with Living Learning Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer E. Eidum, Lara Lomicka
January 04, 2023
This practical resource examines how colleges and universities foster sustainable faculty involvement in living learning communities (LLCs). This volume delivers evidence-based research as well as practical examples and voices from the field, to guide and support faculty serving in different ...
Promoting Equity and Justice Through Pedagogical Partnership
1st Edition
By Alise de Bie, Elizabeth Marquis, Alison Cook-Sather, Leslie Luqueño
June 24, 2021
Faculty and staff in higher education are looking for ways to address the deep inequity and systemic racism that pervade our colleges and universities. Pedagogical partnership can be a powerful tool to enhance equity, inclusion, and justice in our classrooms and curricula. These partnerships create...
Mind the Gap: Global Learning at Home and Abroad
1st Edition
Edited
By Nina Namaste, Amanda Sturgill
March 03, 2020
There is growing awareness that global learning is not confined to university, credit-bearing off campus international programs, and that institutions of higher learning have, up until now, conceived of global education too narrowly. Global learning through study abroad and off-campus domestic ...