Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning

The discipline of nursing is unique in its holistic approach to clients when developing a plan of care. Using an innovative approach entitled "The Puzzle Project", nursing student's in Professor Koonts NRS 2200 Health Assessment Class learned this first hand by making puzzles.

The jointly-hosted discussion took place virtually on Feb. 16.

Erin Pearson, assistant professor of English, will join more than 50 other CATL scholars to develop a highly innovative project to further Elon's strategic goal of building connections between the arts and sciences and professional schools through innovative cross-disciplinary pedagogy.

Students in Jennifer Eidum's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Theory & Practice course attended a workshop on commitment statements led by Beth Godbee, creator of Heart-Head-Hands: Everyday Living for Justice.

Aaron Trocki, associate professor of mathematics, presented video-based curricular resources created in collaboration with Ted Morée at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Interactive Online 2022 Conference on October 6.

Hosted by Teaching and Learning Technologies, Digital Learning Days is a series of summer workshops designed to help faculty grow confidence in their use of various technologies in the classroom.

Dhvani Toprani and Kate Moss presented on the importance of integrating technology at the annual Educause ELI conference in San Diego, California.

The virtual conference was attended by nearly 450 people from 200 institutions pondered what forward-looking engaged citizenship will look like in different disciplines.

Erin Pearson noticed a pattern she hadn’t expected teaching a literature survey course, which caused her to ask: How should a professor pivot their pedagogy practices when they start to see a disciplinary course fill with non-majors to keep them engaged and interested in the topic? Read more about her SoTL project and collaboration with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) below.

Today we feature a story on Mussa Idris who is one of seven Elon faculty co-authors who recently published SoTL work in the article "Undergraduate research in the global context: models and practices for high-quality mentoring". You can read more about his story, SoTL processes, and collaboration with the Center for Research on Global Engagement below.