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The Center for Engaged Learning at Elon will host a 2015-2017 Research Seminar on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher-Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study.  This Research Seminar builds on existing knowledge of implementation of study abroad and off-campus domestic study to maximize their potential as high-impact global learning experiences. Interested scholars and practitioners, regardless of discipline, are invited to apply to join a multi-institutional cohort of researchers collaborating to investigate questions like:

• How do students’ prior experiences (e.g., engagement with difference, personality factors, language proficiency, previous coursework) affect learning in study abroad and off-campus domestic study experiences?
• How do students integrate global learning knowledge, skills, and attitudes/dispositions/habits of mind through study abroad and off-campus domestic study with other educational experiences?
• Does integrating students’ study abroad and off-campus domestic study experiences into their major, discipline, and/or professional studies lead to increased global learning competencies?
• How do particular programmatic factors (e.g., long term vs. short term, study abroad vs. off-campus domestic study, individual vs. group program, homestay vs. group living, applied vs. academic focus) affect students’ global learning?
• How do educators best integrate and infuse study abroad and off-campus domestic study throughout an institution with the goal of promoting students’ global learning?

The Center for Engaged Learning Research Seminar will support multi-institutional research addressing and surrounding this theme over a two-year period, with three one-week summer meetings on the ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë campus. “I think that one of the things that is so remarkable and special about the Elon research seminars is that they demonstrate a level of seriousness and commitment to a kind of inquiry into teaching that is both rare and possibly diminishing even in its rarity,” says Randy Bass (Associate Provost and Professor of English at Georgetown University, and a co-leader of a previous CEL seminar). “To make a statement that it matters to gather smart faculty in a room to give them time to develop as a community to undertake serious questions in systematic ways… that it matters to the future of higher education to ask faculty to undertake that kind of work and to make it a part of the expression of their expertise. I’m very grateful to Elon for creating this proof-of-concept.”

Past Center for Engaged Learning research seminars have generated edited volumes, journal articles and book chapters, white papers, and conference presentations – as well as local initiatives on participants’ home campuses. Participants in the 2015-2017 research seminar will be well-positioned to have a positive and substantial impact on evidence-based study abroad and off-campus domestic study – both at their home institutions and throughout higher education.

The 2015-2017 Center for Engaged Learning Research Seminar will be led by Nina Namaste and Amanda Sturgill (ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë), Neal Sobania (author of Putting the Local in Global Education, forthcoming from Stylus Press), and Mick Vande Berg (lead editor and author of Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students are Learning, What They’re Not, and What We Can Do ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë It).

The full call for applications and instructions for applying can be found on the on the Center for Engaged Learning website. Applications are due November 3, 2014.

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The Center for Engaged Learning brings together international leaders in higher education to develop and to synthesize rigorous research on central questions about student learning; hosts multi-institutional research and practice-based initiatives, conferences, and seminars; and shares related resources for faculty and faculty developers on high-impact practices for engaged learning.

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