Best Practices for Online course with Required Service Learning

Submitted by Alison England on
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What and how do you approach an online course with a required Service Learning component? SWU 291 online, with a 40 hour Service Learning requirement will pilot in Spring 2017. Some of the approaches to ensure fluid communication and support to students include a weekly small group peer support discussion forum, weekly check ins with the instructor, and a journal assignment related to the Service Learning. In addition, a complete timeline and procedure page and Service Learning Module will help guide the students through this process. This pilot will help reflect on what works and what potholes were found along the way.

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Roselyn Turner Thu, 01/12/2017 - 11:27am

Allison, did you create your own module for the Service Learning requirement, or are you using the one provided by the Office of Service Learning?

Becky Baranowski Thu, 03/23/2017 - 9:28am

Hi Alison - I just wanted to follow up with this and see how things are going?  Anything you are observing half way through the semester with incorporating service learning in the class?  Have you found any "potholes", yet?  =)