Research Guides: Service Learning: OTL Learning Circle Articles

Spring 2022

Communication, Flexibility, and Resilience: Navigating the Shift to Virtual Service-Learning During COVID-19
This study, we explored the impact of virtual service-learning on public relations instructors and community partners. Interview respondents described challenges to virtual service-learning related to the pandemic but also noted unanticipated benefits, such as creativity and resilience.
Hybrid High-Impact Pedagogies: Integrating Service-Learning with Three Other High-Impact Pedagogies
This article proposes enhancing student learning through civic engagement by considering the advantages of integrating service-learning with study away, research, and internships and pre-professional courses into first-order, second-order, and third-order hybrid high-impact pedagogies.
Happy Marriage: The Union of Online Instruction and Community-Based Learning
This article explores the opportunities and challenges that university instructors and students have when completing course assignments that merge community-based learning (CBL) and online learning (OL) in sport management and athletic administration pedagogy.
Modified Immersive Situated Service Learning: A Social Justice Approach to Professional Communication Pedagogy
This article presents a hybrid pedagogical approach for designing a critical service-learning course that integrates a social justice curriculum while focusing specifically on reflection, context, and positionality. Detailing the course design and sharing reflections from students and the instructor, the author argues that the modified immersive situated service-learning approach provides professional communication students the opportunity to become agents of change.
Service-Learning in a Pandemic: The Transition to Virtual Engagement
The article focuses on service-learning immersion programs in nursing schools promote cultural humility and engagement with unique considerations for the type of program design and community variables.
Embracing E-service Learning in the Age of COVID and Beyond
The article explores electronic service learning, which focuses on service-learning opportunities that do not require face-to-face interaction with community partners, and provides two examples of alternative service-learning assignments used in a developmental psychology course.
Zooming out of the Crisis: Language and Human Collaboration
This article aims to help language teachers facilitate more diverse interactions in the target language through the use of tools, spaces, and strategies that can be easily incorporated into our digital classrooms.
Impacts of a COVID-19 Module in a Non-Majors Biology Course
In the four-week service-learning module, which included expert-led lectures and an E-service-learning assignment, students created digital infographics to inform their peers and community about COVID-19 safety precautions and completed a required post-reflection assignment summarizing their learning gains.
Telecollaboration in Gerontology Service Learning: Addressing Isolation & Loneliness in a Pandemic
This article details a telecollaborative service-learning project to engage older adults online and provide applied experiences for students.
Approaching Critical Service-Learning: A Model for Reflection on Positionality and Possibility
In this autoethnographic reflective essay, five individuals share their journey from higher education institutions as they engaged in a community of practice examining their own questions, assumptions, experiences, and positionality to more fully understand critical service-learning (CSL).

Fall 2021

Exploring the Intersections of Interdisciplinary Teaching, Experiential Learning, and Community Engagement: A Case Study of Service Learning in Practice
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the complex role of service learning as a central approach to undergraduate teaching and learning where interdisciplinary teaching, experiential learning, and community engagement are core goals.
Students' Understanding of Sustainability and Climate Change across Linked Service-Learning Courses
The goal of this article is to describe a joint effort between four college courses in different disciplines that used service-learning projects focused on climate change as a tool to teach sustainability concepts.
Faculty-Friendly Framework for Improving Teaching and Learning through Service-Learning
This article highlights benefits of service-learning as a promising pedagogical approach to improving teaching and learning in college classrooms.
Re-Imagining Community-Engaged Learning: Service-Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders Courses During and After COVID-19
This paper reviews the literature on service-learning, its use in online learning, and ways in which faculty in higher education can re-imagine and prioritize community engagement during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Service Learning Projects: Stakeholder Benefits and Potential Class Topics
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the benefits of including a service learning project in college classes and focuses on benefits to all stakeholders, including students, community, and faculty.
Instituting Service-Learning: A Critical Analysis of Reciprocity between Colleges and Local Communities
This paper from seeks to understand the ways in which power is constructed and maintained by institutions of higher education in relation to the communities in which they are situated. Specifically, it examines the role of service-learning as part of broader civic engagement initiatives in place at these institutions.

Journals and Trade Magazines

Journal of Experiential Education
Published four times a year, the Journal of Experiential Education is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal presenting a diverse range of articles in subject areas such as outdoor adventure programming, service learning, environmental education, therapeutic applications, research and theory, the creative arts, and much more.
Journal of College Teaching & Learning (Online)
Features papers on all aspects of online learning and teaching in higher education.

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