Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning

Elon University hosted its 8th annual Teaching and Learning Conference this month as more than 250 faculty, program directors and administrators from 34 area colleges and universities examined student learning and faculty roles in creating active and engaged learning environments, as well as the technologies that support these environments.

Volume three, issue one of the Elon Law Review includes four articles by scholars and teachers of law who are experts in legal education pedagogy. The authors explore enhancements to casebooks, testing techniques, teaching methods, teacher evaluation, and other aspects of law school instruction to improve learning in legal education.

McKinnon, Moseley Center noon - 1:00 p.m.

Belk Pavilion room 208 10:15 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Belk Pavilion room 208 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Peter Felten, assistant provost and director of CATL, co-authored the article “Students as co-creators of teaching approaches, course design and curricula: Implications for academic developers.”

On June 3, Scott Hildebrand, assistant director of teaching and learning technologies presented at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Charlotte.

Elon University’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has started a two-year research seminar, “Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer,” that will explore the composition skills students learn in the classroom and use in new settings, such as an upper level course, an internship or the workplace.

Tony Crider, associate professor and chair of Physics, has recently been elected to a three-year term on the national Reacting Advisory Board. This board oversees development and publication of the Reacting to the Past series.