About EiRP

The higher education landscape is becoming increasingly complex due to factors like internationalisation, growing student diversity and numbers, rapid integration of information technology in education, insights from the learning sciences, and rising governmental demands for accountability. In a globally recognised research-intensive institution like NUS, which values high-quality education, it’s crucial for our faculty, students, and administrators to engage with renowned international thinkers and educators.

The Educator-in-Residence Programme (EiRP) is a CTLT initiative that fosters dialogue between the NUS academic community and distinguished educators worldwide. Through this initiative, esteemed educators are invited periodically to interact with academics, students, and educational leaders on relevant topics. The EiRP features a public lecture, staff seminars, student dialogues, roundtables, workshops, and informal discussions.

CTLT hopes that the NUS community will strongly support the EiRP and benefit from the evidence-based discussions on learning and teaching. In this way, NUS will be able to maintain and indeed elevate NUS’s position at the forefront of educational practice, research, and innovation.

Professor Peter Felten
Professor of History
Executive director, Center for Engaged Learning
Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning
Elon University (US)

Peter Felten is professor of history, executive director of the Center for Engaged Learning, and assistant provost for teaching and learning at Elon University (US). He has published seven books about undergraduate education, including Connections are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) co-authored by Isis Artze-Vega, Leo Lambert, and Oscar Miranda Tapia – with an open access online version free to all readers. His next book, The SoTL Guide, is co-authored by Katarina Mårtensson and Nancy Chick, and will be published in late 2024. He is on the advisory board of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and is a fellow of the Gardner Institute, an organisation that works to expand equity and justice through higher education.

His research interests include:

Higher education teaching and learning; relational higher education; faculty/educational development; higher education reform; belonging, mattering, and well-being; students as partners

For further information, please contact our EiRP coordinators: