This book serves as an introduction to using online teaching
technologies and hybrid forms of teaching for experiential learning
and civic engagement. Service-learning has kept pace neither with
the rapid growth in e-learning in all its forms nor with the
reality that an increasing number of students are learning online
without exposure to the benefits of this powerful pedagogy.
Eservice-learning (electronic service-learning) combines
service-learning and on-line learning and enables the delivery of
the instruction and/or the service to occur partially or fully
online. Eservice-learning allows students anywhere, regardless of
geography, physical constraints, work schedule, or other access
limitations, to experience service-learning. It reciprocally also
equips online learning with a powerful tool for engaging students.
In eservice-learning, the core components of service, learning, and
reflection may take a different form due to the online medium-for
example, reflection often occurs through discussion board
interactions, journals, wikis, or blogs in an eservice-learning
course. Moreover, the service, though still community-based,
creates a world of opportunities to connect students with
communities across the globe-as well as at their very own doorstep.
This book introduces the reader to the four emerging types of
eservice-learning, from Extreme EService-Learning (XE-SL) classes
where 100% of the instruction and 100% of the service occur online,
to three distinct forms of hybrid where either the service or the
instruction are delivered wholly on-line - with students, for
instance, providing online products for far-away community partners
- or in which both are delivered on-site and online. It considers
the instructional potential of common mobile technologies - phones,
tablets and mobile reading devices. The authors also address
potential limitations, such as technology challenges, difficulties
sustaining three-way communication among the instructor, community
partner, and students, and added workload. The book includes
research studies on effectiveness as well as examples of practice
such drafting grants for a community partner, an informational
technology class building online communities for an autism group,
and an online education class providing virtual mentoring to
at-risk students in New Orleans from across the country.
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