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Workshop: Designing Effective Writing Assignments & Giving Feedback/Grading in Moodle
December 19, 2017
The Center for Writing Excellence and Teaching and Learning Technologies is pairing up for a winter-term workshop focused on writing. If you’re planning to assign writing this winter or spring and would like to use Moodle to streamline your feedback/grading process, please consider joining us.
Pumping iron: Madzima publishes article on the benefits of resistance exercise in breast cancer survivors
December 18, 2017
Titch Madzima, assistant professor of exercise science, has published an article in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise on the effects of moderate to vigorous resistance exercise combined with a daily protein supplement on body composition and muscular strength in breast cancer survivors.
Techniques from the tech world: Pope-Ruark’s new book shows how to put Agile strategies to work in academia
December 15, 2017
A first book by Rebecca Pope-Ruark, associate professor of English, published by the University of Chicago Press looks at how the popular Agile project management techniques can be applied in the classroom and in research work.
Haskell publishes article on transnationalism in the novels of Fatou Diome
December 15, 2017
The article by Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, appeared in a special issue of the journal South Atlantic Review.
Physics and Engineering banquet held Dec. 7
December 14, 2017
Physics and engineering students and faculty gathered Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, on the last day of classes for the annual end of semester banquet.
Bullock featured on statewide program about new N.C. Teaching Fellows
December 13, 2017
Ann Bullock, dean of Elon's School of Education, was a featured guest on a recent episode of Education Matters, a program that airs statewide on UNC-TV as well as in the Triangle on WRAL and in the Charlotte area on FOX 50.
Mark Enfield and Teaching Fellow alum Sara Rosenthal '16 collaborate on book about science education
December 12, 2017
Enfield, associate professor of education worked with Rosenthal to write “Taking science home: Reflexivity on becoming a teacher insider in an afterschool science program,” a book about their efforts to bring science learning to local children in an informal after-school program. The book narrates their efforts to become insiders in the social and cultural context, their learning as teachers, and the ways that science learning mediated between the children, teachers, context and content through the after-school program.
Elon PA students collaborate with the Alamance Open Door Clinic on improving care
December 11, 2017
Students in Elon's Physician Assistant Studies program and staff from the Alamance Open Door Clinic participated in a design thinking sprint on Tuesday, Dec. 5, to address two questions related to quality improvement and patient adherence.
A 'passport' to legal writing best practices
December 8, 2017
Elon Law, in coordination with the Legal Writing Institute, hosted a One-Day Workshop in December for regional law professors and practitioners who visited downtown Greensboro for a program that was part of a nationwide series.
Elon University a partner in innovative credential data platform
December 8, 2017
The university has participated in the development of a common credentialing language that central to new tools introduced by Credential Engine on Thursday, Dec. 7.