Event Title
Online Course Delivery and Service Learning: Best Practices
Location
Hamilton Hall 115
Session
Session 4
Start Date
12-4-2014 1:45 PM
End Date
12-4-2014 2:45 PM
Description
Service learning is a powerful instructional tool to promote student and civic engagement. It can promote important benefits for students (enhance civic engagement and/or learning), the community partner (useful products), the instructor (hands-on learning of academic content), and the university itself (positive community relations). The problem is service-learning risks being left behind as instructors increasingly transition to online learning platforms. Anecdotal observations of colleagues suggest that some abandon their service-learning efforts when transferring to teaching online because they view the online platform as an obstacle to service learning. In this session, we will explore online course delivery and service-learning issues and successes. We will delve into technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge influences on best practices for those wanting to integrate service learning into online courses. Identification of possible issues with the intersection of these and how those issues can be resolved according to instructors who are successfully integrating service learning in online course formats will be a desired outcome of this session. An additional outcome is clarification of best practices for online course delivery and service learning.
Online Course Delivery and Service Learning: Best Practices
Hamilton Hall 115
Service learning is a powerful instructional tool to promote student and civic engagement. It can promote important benefits for students (enhance civic engagement and/or learning), the community partner (useful products), the instructor (hands-on learning of academic content), and the university itself (positive community relations). The problem is service-learning risks being left behind as instructors increasingly transition to online learning platforms. Anecdotal observations of colleagues suggest that some abandon their service-learning efforts when transferring to teaching online because they view the online platform as an obstacle to service learning. In this session, we will explore online course delivery and service-learning issues and successes. We will delve into technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge influences on best practices for those wanting to integrate service learning into online courses. Identification of possible issues with the intersection of these and how those issues can be resolved according to instructors who are successfully integrating service learning in online course formats will be a desired outcome of this session. An additional outcome is clarification of best practices for online course delivery and service learning.