{"product_id":"9781620360637","title":"eService-Learning: Creating Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement Through Online and Hybrid Courses","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEservice-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Stylus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018664001776,"sku":"9781620360637","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620360637_p0.jpg?v=1763862359","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620360637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}