The Center for Engaged Learning brings together international leaders in higher education to develop and to synthesize rigorous research on central questions about student learning.
The Center for Engaged Learning fosters research about engaged learning and high-impact practices.
The Center for Engaged Learning brings together international leaders in higher education to develop and to synthesize rigorous research on central questions about student learning.
The Center for Engaged Learning hosts multi-institutional research and practice-based initiatives, conferences, and seminars.
| Peter Felten | Director | (336) 278-6609 | pfelten@elon.edu |
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| Jessie L. Moore | Associate Director (Interim) | (336) 278-5649 | jmoore28@elon.edu |
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| Stephanie Conover | Program Assistant | (336) 278-5106 | sconover@elon.edu |
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 | The Center is located on the Elon University main campus in the William Henry Belk Pavilion near the corner of Haggard Avenue and N. Antioch Avenue in the Academic Village.
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Peter Felten is Assistant Provost, Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, and associate professor of history. He has published widely on engaged learning and the scholarship of teaching, and he is on the editorial boards of the International Journal for Academic Development and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Peter was president (2010-2011) of the POD Network, an international association for teaching and learning centers in higher education. Peter frequently speaks and presents at colleges and universities worldwide on faculty development, scholarship of teaching and learning, and visual literacy. His recent research focuses on how students learn and develop in college, and on the possibilities of student-faculty partnerships in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Jessie Moore is interim associate director of the Center for Engaged Learning and associate professor of English. As a Seminar Leader for the Elon Research Seminar on Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, she facilitates multi-institutional research on writing transfer. In addition to publishing on transfer, her recent research focuses on multi-institutional research and collaborative inquiry, writing residencies for faculty writers, the writing lives of university students, service-learning, and second language writing. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. 
Stephanie Conover assists with logistics of the Center’s programs and events. In addition, she supports the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and the General Studies Program. Stephanie has a master’s in Library and Information Studies and brings experience in database management and resource organization. Before coming to Elon, she held positions at several Guilford County nonprofit organizations.