Jessie L. Moore

Engaged Learning Scholar | Teacher-Mentor | Editor & Author

Reflections and Resources

New Podcast – Making College “Worth It”

Podcasts

Working with student partners, I’ve launched a new podcast for Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning.

Making College “Worth It” examines engaged learning activities that contribute to a high-quality, equitable education and increase the value of college experiences. In each episode, we share research from the Center for Engaged Learning and our international network of scholars. We explore engaged learning activities that recent college graduates associate with their financial and time commitment to college being worthwhile. 

Browse episodes and show notes on the Center’s website, or subscribe on your preferred podcast app. The Center releases new episodes on 2nd and 4th Mondays.

New Book Alert

Book Series, Key Practices

Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff is now available!

Book cover for Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff. The title overlays an image of a fountain.

The book dropped a bit earlier than initially forecast, so the Center for Engaged Learning team and I still are working on a few of the supplemental resources (though most are available here). You can purchase the book from Stylus’s site, and if/when Routledge offers a discount code, I’ll share it here.

This book reflects a culmination of a decade of work with the Center for Engaged Learning research seminars. As the Center’s director, I’ve been able to look for themes across the research seminars, leading me to identify six key practices for fostering engaged learning. Thank you to all our participants for engaging in our international, multi-institutional, and multidisciplinary adventure!

Study Abroad as a High-Impact Practice

Engaged Learning, On the CEL Blog, Podcasts

Masters of Higher Ed students in my Winter Term (January) course composed a series of blog posts and 60-Second SoTL podcast episodes for the Center for Engaged Learning, focusing on study abroad as a high-impact practice. Here’s the full list of posts and episodes:

Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning – Coming Soon

Engaged Learning, Key Practices

Book cover for Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff. The title overlays an image of a fountain.

Early this month, I returned the copyedits for Key Practices for Fostering Engaged Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Staff, so it’s starting to feel even more real.

This book shares themes from over a decade of international, multi-institutional, and multi-disciplinary research facilitated by the Center for Engaged Learning’s research seminars on engaged learning topics. I offer brief – but deep – dives into six key practices for fostering engaged learning in higher education.

By focusing on key practices across institutional contexts, not only outcomes and case studies, the book prepares readers to address high-impact practice challenges like scale, quality, equity, and integration. When the conversation about high-quality engaged learning focuses on key practices, individuals and institutions are better equipped to consider the human and financial resources necessary to scale-up access without compromising quality, to ensure equitable experiences for all student groups, and to facilitate students’ integration of their learning with their other higher education and lived experiences.

Watch for updates on the Center’s website and at Stylus.

Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning

Book Series, Engaged Learning

Cultivating Capstones is now available from Stylus, with supplemental resources available on the Center for Engaged Learning website. The edited collection features multi-year, multi-institutional, and mixed-methods studies conducted by participants in the 2018-2020 Center for Engaged Learning research seminar on Capstone Experiences; additional scholars contributed complementary chapters.