When teaching courses that bring together students from different disciplines with varied prior knowledge, classroom learning alone is not always enough. Service learning, which involves students ...

Service learning can have many benefits for students, teachers and the wider community, but starting out can be intimidating. Grace Ngai offers one don’t and three dos to begin your journey So, you’re ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...

Community service-learning, where students serve as community volunteers in poor, urban neighborhoods, holds the potential to enhance the sociology curriculum. But community service-learning is not ...

Blogger's Note: Service learning has become increasingly popular, and I want to initiate a discussion of service learning and the ethical issues involved. To do so I've asked some noted experts in the ...

Service learning, a teaching method that combines classroom lessons with community service, has a high impact on education, as it is mutually beneficial to both students and society at large, R.

Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall's Disabilities in Literature class focuses on learning outside the classroom during their service learning trip to the Lowell Association for the Blind. Watch the video ...

Students involved with service learning can reflect on their experiences to gain a deeper understanding of course content and a broader appreciation of the discipline, improving critical thinking ...

Service learning allows you to learn while applying your skills to help others through service to the college, the community, or the world. If your passion is to apply engineering to solve problems, ...