Center for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series
Series Editors
Jessie L. Moore and Peter Felten
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The Center for Engaged Learning Open Access Book Series features concise, peer-reviewed books (both authored books and edited collections) for a multi-disciplinary, international, higher education audience interested in research-informed engaged learning practices.
Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning is an international research center that fosters investigations of and resource development to support:
- how to do “high-impact” educational practices well and in diverse contexts,
- how to scale these practices equitably to all students, and
- how students integrate their learning across multiple, meaningful learning experiences.
Series books align with the Center’s mission to develop and to synthesize rigorous research on these central questions about student learning in higher education.
Books are available for free download as PDF files on the Center for Engaged Learning’s website, where readers can find additional open-access resources (e.g., videos, discussion questions, etc.) for each publication. Paperback versions of the books are available for sale through Parlor Press.
Since 2025, CEL has partnered with Parlor Press to offer these high-quality print versions of the series books for purchase.
Learn More about the Series at the CEL Website
For a full description of the series, a video introduction from the editors, submission and proposal guidelines, and an author guide, please visit the series page at the Center for Engaged Learning website.
Download CEL Books
You can download PDF versions of all CEL books from the CEL website directly from the book's webpage, which also includes resources for teachers and students. This page includes a list of best practices for downloading and sharing these open access books.
Submission and Contact Information
Book authors/editors who publish in the series join a community of scholars focused on engaged learning, with series books collectively marketed to faculty, staff, and administrators across higher education institution types around the globe.
Review our full proposal guidelines here, and direct questions to cel-publishing@elon.edu.
About the Editors
Jessie L. Moore (PhD, Purdue University) is director of the Center for Engaged Learning and professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric. She leads planning, implementation, and assessment of the Center’s research seminars, which support multi-institutional inquiry on high-impact pedagogies and other focused engaged learning topics. Her recent research examines engaged learning practices (including high-impact pedagogies), transfer of writing knowledge and practices, multi-institutional research and collaborative inquiry, writing residencies for faculty writers, and the writing lives of university students. She is the co-editor of Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer (with Chris Anson, The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2016), Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education (with Randy Bass, Stylus, 2017), and Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (with Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler and Paul Miller, CUR, fall 2018). Jessie’s professional service to the scholarship of teaching and learning was recognized with the 2019 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Distinguished Service Award. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the ISSOTL Publications Committee. She previously served as the elected Secretary (2015–2019) for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC); as U.S. Regional Vice President (2016–2018) for the ISSOTL; and on the CCCC Executive Committee (2010–2013).
Peter Felten is executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, assistant provost for teaching and learning, and professor of history at Elon University. He works with colleagues on institution-wide teaching and learning initiatives, and on the scholarship of teaching and learning. In his teaching, Peter aims to help students think critically and write clearly about the connections between the lives of individual people and larger themes in history. As a scholar, he has published six books about undergraduate education including most recently (with Leo Lambert), Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). He has served as president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2016-17) and also of the POD Network (2010–2011), the U.S. professional society for educational developers. He is co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development, on the advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and a fellow of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, a foundation that works to advance equity in higher education.