Academic Summit

Building Service-Learning into Your Textbooks: Publishing, Custom Publishing, and Creating Service-Learning Guides

Library 3D

This presentation addresses ways to get service-learning guidelines and activities incorporated into the textbooks we use for our courses, either by writing and publishing service-learning books and guidebooks or by custom publishing service-learning information into already existing course textbooks. The presenter will discuss her experience publishing a textbook with service-learning components built in. Also open for discussion will be custom publishing textbooks as a way to provide service-learning pedagogy in the textbooks used for classes. Incorporating service-learning into textbooks serves both teachers and students because guidelines and activities for service-learning are helpfully located in the course book.