The Center for Engaged Learning’s Elon Statements aids scholarly teachers who are interested in research-informed pedagogies to improve their teaching and to make students’ learning more meaningful.
The Center for Engaged Learning’s website is full of resources to help enhance teaching and learning in and out of the classroom. Not only does the center offer open access resources, but every summer, CEL hosts a multitude of international, multi-institutional, and multi-disciplinary research seminars. These seminars allow for exploration and collaboration among higher education professionals to conduct meaningful and impactful research on engaged learning.
The Center for Engaged Learning has a collection of Elon Statements. These synthesize prior literature and findings from the research seminars. These statements each highlight key terms, recent research, as well as in-depth explanations and examples to highlight important takeaways for teaching and learning. Below is a list of available Elon Statements developed by research seminar participants.
- This Elon Statement defines capstone experiences and delves into the history of the Capstone Experience as a facet of higher education. The statement then describes the research conducted on capstone experience impacts, as well as how capstone experiences can be made equitable for all students to complete, rounding off the topic with future directions that research on capstone projects can take.
Conditions for Meaningful Learning Experiences’
- This Elon Statement emphasizes the importance of connections to broader contexts, feedback, reflection and relationships as major factors in student success. This examination is followed by discussions of “Emerging Working Principles in Development,” touching on topics that the researchers have yet to fully explore.
Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience
- This Elon Statement emphasizes the impacts and importance of studying abroad and off-campus domestic studies. The statement consists of working principles regarding these forms of study and in development.
Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact Practice
- This Elon Statement highlights foundations to better understand the importance of residential learning communities, alongside highlighting new research that emerged during the research seminar. The statement culminates with discussion of working principles that are in development.
Transfer of Writing Knowledge and Practices
- This Elon Statement provides useful information about transferring past learning to current learning and other topics related to knowledge transfer. The resource includes diagrams, working principles and next research steps.
- This Elon Statement defines work-integrated learning and provides perspectives from students, academic mentors/universities, and host organizations and supervisors. The statement features findings from the 2022-2024 research seminar and connects the research to contemporary considerations like the impacts of artificial intelligence.
- This Elon Statement provides context to the importance of writing beyond the university. Then, it goes into detail regarding “Enabling Practices” that can help prepare students for writing beyond the university.
These Elon Statements will remain accessible via the Center for Engaged Learning’s website.