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  • Faculty and student present at ISSOTL
    Seven faculty and one undergraduate from Elon presented at the October 22-25 conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). This is the premier conference on SoTL, including faculty from 15 countries and plenary speakers from three continents this year.
  • Fall 2009 Teaching and Learning Grants Awarded
    The Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning has announced the Fall 2009 recipients of Teaching and Learning Grants.
  • College Writing Faculty and CATL Research Digital Literacies Pedagogies
    Today's students and alumni can tap increasingly varied technologies to support their writing across the university, in internships, and in post-graduation careers. Five ENG 110 faculty also want them to have critical strategies for using these available technologies to enhance their writing processes, their written products, and their research.
  • Faculty and students conclude Carnegie project with book, presentation
    The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's three-year Institutional Leadership Program concluded this month with the publication of a book authored in part by Elon University faculty and students, as well as an international colloquium in Bloomington, Indiana.
  • Cahill, DiRosa, Motley, and Nam selected to be CATL Scholars
    The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) is pleased to name four faculty CATL Scholars for 2010-2012. The purpose of the CATL Scholars program is to cultivate scholarly and innovative teaching and learning at Elon University. CATL Scholars will receive funding for two years to develop, implement, and assess projects intended to transform student learning.
  • David Neville publishes paper on interactive fiction game for teaching German
    David Neville, assistant professor of German and director of language learning technologies, published "Cybertext redux: Using DGBL to teach L2 vocabulary, reading and culture," which will appear in the forthcoming issue of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).
  • Frances Ward-Johnson presents research on blogging
    Frances Ward-Johnson, associate professor in the School of Communications, presented research on blogging in public relations classes at the 2009 International Association of Online Communicators Annual Conference held Oct.1-2 in Washington, D.C.
  • Jessie Moore chairs Carolinas WPA conference
    Jessie Moore, assistant professor of English, served as the conference organizer for the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) fall conference, Writing Research and Program Preservation in Tight Financial Times, September 21-23, at WildAcres Retreat in Little Switzerland, N.C.
  • LSM faculty research published in journals and book
    Leisure and Sport Management faculty have had research featured in several publications, and during one conference presentation, in recent months.
  • Michelle Trim publishes article
    Discusses the need to look beyond good intentions when using service learning to teach writing.
  • Felten elected president of professional organization
    CATL Director to lead POD, the professional association for teaching and learning centers at colleges and universities in the United States and 30 other countries.
  • Peter Felten presents at AACU conference
    Co-leads workshops on improving teaching and learning and the role of visual literacy in liberal arts and sciences education for an annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.