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Toskin, Katarzyna; Pisano, Mark A.; Corey, Toby – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
This paper introduces a universal framework for service-based learning which provides information systems students with opportunities to gain invaluable hands-on experience. More specifically, through this framework, students can develop hard, soft, and interdisciplinary skills in preparation for their first professional careers upon graduation.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Information Systems, Job Skills
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Kevin Whiteacre – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
High quality student outcome measures provide the foundation for effective learning assessment. These outcomes can be organized into different categories, such as skills or habits of mind, and evidence types, such as direct or indirect. Prevailing models of assessment, however, focus only on the distinction between direct and indirect evidence…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Objectives, Outcome Measures, Student Evaluation
Lane-Holbert, Mark R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The 21st century world is increasingly globalized and interconnected, and migration is a reality that substantially impacts the US educational system, and often requires specialized services for migrant students to successfully transition to higher education. While higher education has many benefits, it also presents inherent risks and challenges…
Descriptors: College Programs, Migrant Education, Migrant Programs, Migrants
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Baumgartner, Karin; Brown, Connor; Demschar, Isabel; Rellaford, David; Tanner, Keaton; Thomas, Alyssa – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2022
The article discusses a year-long outreach activity, "Sparking interest in German." Five University of Utah German students engaged in the AATG/Goethe-Institut-sponsored SPARK program and taught German to local middle schoolers. At the heart of this outreach project were questions such as whether student-run outreach programs could truly…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, Outreach Programs, Student Interests
Kelly Elizabeth Franklin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Widespread consensus among the tourism and development studies literature suggests that higher education plays a key role in the achievement of sustainable tourism development. However, discussions on approaches to teaching sustainability in tourism at the higher education level are underdeveloped, especially in conflict-affected contexts. To…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Sustainable Development, Tourism, Higher Education
Henning, Gavin W.; Robbins, Rich; Andes, Stacy – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2020
Holistic student learning has been a hallmark of U.S. higher education since the early 20th Century when the American Council on Education (ACE) published the "Student Personnel Point of View" (SPPV) in 1937, reaffirming time and again that learning happens both inside and outside of the classroom. To consider students' holistic…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Higher Education, College Students, Evaluation Methods
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Ghant, Walter A.; Horst, S. Jeanne; Whetstone, Devon H. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Institutions of higher education invest time and money directing cocurricular programs that allow students to formally engage in the local community. Community-service learning is one type of program recently dubbed "high impact" (Kuh, 2008). However, it is not enough to simply refer to a program as "high impact": it is…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, College Students, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Finley, Ashley – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
For over a decade, the national Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project has promoted the idea that well-being is an essential outcome of college students' learning and civic engagement. The project emphasizes the full promise of a liberal education: to be liberally educated is to possess the complex skills and abilities necessary for…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, Liberal Arts, Skill Development
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Caro, Cary A.; Lirette, Kolby; Yest, Myke – American Journal of Business Education, 2013
As business organizations face more and more scrutiny for poor leadership practices, American business schools have come under more pressure to prepare students to enter organizations with an understanding of and an appreciation for quality leadership. This manuscript focuses on the introduction of a service-learning project to a Senior Leadership…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Leadership Training, Service Learning, Active Learning
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Adams, Analise N.; Brock, Ryan J.; Gordon, Katie A.; Grohs, Jacob R.; Kirk, Gary R. – Journal of College and Character, 2014
As part of a broad initiative to create a portfolio of robust living learning communities at Virginia Tech, the SERVE LLC was established in 2009 to offer students meaningful community-engaged learning experiences. The program connects students with a commitment to social justice in an environment that promotes critical dialogue and reflection.…
Descriptors: Reflection, Communities of Practice, Learning Experience, Social Justice
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Moore, David Thornton – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
Programs falling under the general rubric of "experiential education" take a number of forms, varying on several dimensions; what is offered here is a schematic overview. In general, they all involve students in activities that look rather different from more traditional classroom-based methods: (1) the formal lecture and discussion; (2) the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Instruction, Teaching Methods
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McClam, Tricia; Diambra, Joel F.; Burton, Bobbie; Fuss, Angie; Fudge, Daniel L. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2008
A qualitative analysis of written reflective assignments during a service-learning project at a Southeastern university provide insight into students' learning, as well as a means of assessing the experience for student growth and change. Expectations and concerns of students prior to the project were compared with post-experience reflections to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Service Learning, Skill Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Marullo, Sam; Moayedi, Roxanna; Cooke, Deanna – Teaching Sociology, 2009
C. Wright Mills would be a friendly critic of service learning, acknowledging its benefits for providing students with experiential learning opportunities to connect personal troubles with social issues. Yet he would be critical of service-learning practices that perpetuate institutional power inequalities and that do not advance the social change…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Research Projects, Service Learning, Sociology
Waite, Paul Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 65 in-depth interviews with Chinese university students and higher education administrators, this study examines the roots of an emerging community service learning movement in mainland China. The dissertation focuses on a case study of a pioneering Chinese Party State-sponsored…
Descriptors: Caring, Community Development, Social Control, Service Learning
Moely, Barbara E.; Furco, Andrew; Reed, Julia – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2008
Students from seven institutions of higher education reported their preferences for different paradigms of service at the beginning of their service-learning courses. At the end of the courses, they described the associated service activities in terms of the same paradigms and also completed scales describing their learning outcomes and attitudes…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Change, Attitude Change, Student Attitudes
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