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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning promotes engaging, inclusive, and effective teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, at Elon University.
The Center has a Faculty Advisory Committee that provides insight and guidance regarding mission, programs and services.
Each year the Center's staff compiles an annual report.
In 2011, Dr. Mary Deane Sorcinelli conducted an external review of the Center as part of Elon's regular assessment processes.
| Peter Felten | Director | (336) 278-6609 | pfelten@elon.edu |
 Peter Felten is assistant provost, director of 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 is president (2010-2011) of the POD Network, an international association for teaching and learning centers in higher education. Dr. Felten 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. | |||
| Katie King | Associate Director | (336) 278-6449 | kingcath@elon.edu |
 Katie King is associate professor of psychology and associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. As a developmental and educational psychologist she studies how culturally-mediated experiences shape thinking, including epistemological beliefs (about the nature of knowledge and learning). Dr. King also focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, and in research projects on the impact of life transitions on both college students and college faculty. Her publications and conference presentation topics include the scholarship of teaching and learning, communities of inquiry, and college student development. She was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Elon University in 2006. | |||
| Mary Jo Festle | Associate Director | (336) 278-6423 | festle@elon.edu |
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| Laura St. Cyr | Program Assistant | (336) 278-5106 | lstcyr@elon.edu |
 Laura St. Cyr is responsible for logistics of the Center’s programs and events. She coordinates budgets for scholar programs, travel grants, and teaching and learning grants; she also works with on-going programs such as course design/reading groups and events such as the annual Teaching & Learning conference. In addition, Laura supports the University’s General Studies Program by consolidating GST syllabi and course data. She maintains the library housed at the Center and supervises student assistants. Before coming to Elon, Laura taught high school English in Guilford County. | |||
.jpg) | 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. The campus map provides easy directions. Mailing Address: Phone: 336-278-5100 |
Mary Jo Festle is professor of history and associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. Festle’s scholarship has been in U.S. women’s history, oral history, medical history, and social movements. While she enjoys discussing most issues related to teaching and learning, she is especially interested in diversity, course design, disciplinary thinking, mentoring, and linking day-to-day class work to course goals. Festle received the university’s 2011 Daniels-Danieley Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2008-2010 Elon University Senior Faculty Research Fellowship.