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Faulconer, Emily – American Journal of Distance Education, 2021
With an increasing number of courses taught asynchronously online, it is important to explore how to implement high-impact practices in this modality. Service-learning--a high impact practice--is a course-based, credit-bearing type of experiential learning. It is important to understand instructional strategies and course design for…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students
Ronney, Alexis; Kirby, Benjamin J. – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2021
Purpose: Service-learning has the potential to improve student outcomes by providing students opportunities to apply their knowledge and skills in real-world contexts and is well suited to graduate education in communication sciences and disorders. However, relatively few service-learning studies in the literature focus on audiology, and the range…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Audiology, Outcomes of Education, Graduate Students
Kwenani, Deidre (Farwick); Yu, Xi – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
The purpose of this study was to identify actual and perceived barriers and benefits of engaging in service-learning and volunteering activities as identified from the unique perspective of international students. Through the identification of barriers and benefits, we can provide more informed training to international students and provide a…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Students, Learning Experience, Barriers
Hahn, Micah; Van Wyck, Rebecca; Seater, Mariah A.; Marvin, Alicia F. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2022
Adventure-based learning is used by behavioral health providers to connect clients to therapeutic activities outside traditional settings. These approaches often aim to build internal and external assets that support positive youth development. Here we evaluate the impact of an experiential learning curriculum on youth development and identify…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adventure Education, Mental Health, Therapy
Hosman, Laura; Jacobs, Ginger – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
Educational approaches that enable students to actively and directly participate in "real-world" projects are increasingly recognized as valuable pedagogical tools and, as such, being incorporated into university curriculums worldwide. Though not traditionally associated with political science courses, project-based international service…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cross Cultural Training
Sockman, Beth Rajan; Carducci, Olivia M.; Clossey, Laurene; Batson-Magnuson, LuAnn; White, Gene; Wehmeyer, Adrian; Wells, Holly; Rauch, Grant – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Instructors from five disciplines implemented content-specific service projects and determined students' perceptions of their experience. An action research framework was used to examine the experiences and to analyze data in customizable pre- and post-service-learning surveys. Although the students' experiences differed greatly, results showed…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Universities, Institutional Mission, College Faculty
O'Kelly, Mary; Garrison, Julie; Merry, Brian; Torreano, Jennifer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Academic libraries are well lauded for offering supportive spaces for students' self-directed study, and significant resources are dedicated to librarian instruction in the classroom. What many academic libraries lack, however, is a middle ground, a routine way for students to help one another using best practices in peer-to-peer learning theory.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Service Learning, Peer Teaching, Best Practices
Collet-Klingenberg, Lana L.; Hribar, Kelsy E.; Fenwick, Delaney K. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2015
First year learning community (LC) freshmen entering as education majors participated in year-long activities related to service learning and leadership development. Activities included fall cohort classes with shared content, a common read, and a spring seminar that included leadership learning, fund raising, and a short-term service project in…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Communities of Practice, College Freshmen, Education Majors
Michael, Robert D., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation consists of three studies that examine service-learning (SL) as an approach to incorporating movement integration (MI) in elementary classrooms as part of a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP). All three studies attempt to advance the knowledge base about using partnership approaches to supporting school based…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Movement Education, Elementary School Students, Grounded Theory
Coker, Jeffrey Scott; Porter, Desiree Jasmine – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
Several years ago, Elon University set out to better understand experiential learning on campus. At the time, there was a pragmatic need to collect data that would inform revisions to the core curriculum, including an experiential-learning requirement (ELR) that had been in place since 1994. The question was whether it made sense to raise the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Best Practices, College Students, Student Attitudes
Piacitelli, Jill; Barwick, Molly; Doerr, Elizabeth; Porter, Melody; Sumka, Shoshanna – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
Alternative break programs, which are short-term service-learning trips, immerse students in direct service and education, resulting in the creation of active citizens who think and act critically around the root causes of social issues. Over the last 20 years, domestic alternative breaks have effectively created strong community partnerships and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Seismology, Natural Disasters
Celio, Christine I.; Durlak, Joseph; Dymnicki, Allison – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
Service-learning (SL) has become a popular teaching method everywhere from elementary schools to colleges. Despite the increased presence of SL in the education world, it is still unclear what student outcomes are associated with SL programs and what factors are related to more effective programs. A meta-analysis of 62 studies involving 11,837…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Meta Analysis, Service Learning
Koch-Patterson, Penelope – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Society is more and more interconnected and interdependent. This results in a plethora of complex social problems and thereby creates the need for individuals with strong decision-making skills. This quantitative study examined the relationship between undergraduate students' participation in academic service-learning and their levels of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Decision Making Skills, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation
Harris, Clodagh – Journal of Political Science Education, 2010
This article investigates the use of service-learning in teaching active democratic citizenship in the postgraduate classroom. In particular it draws on a case study of an MBS Government module (GV6104) entitled "Political Participation and Mobilisation" that explores the relationship between democracy and participation. Students of this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Student Attitudes, Citizenship, Democracy