Building a Foundation for a Philanthropic Future: Community-Engagement in an Online College Class

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Author(s): Mary Todd Chesnut (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 25
Source title: Community Engagement Program Implementation and Teacher Preparation for 21st Century Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Cathryn Crosby (Teachers College Columbia University, USA)and Frederick Brockmeier (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0871-7.ch011

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Educational Administration and Leadership / Government & Law / Urban & Regional Development

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This chapter will outline an instructor's attempts to incorporate service-learning into an online college course in the fall of 2014, utilizing a well-respected institutional philanthropic program. The chapter will describe the pedagogical challenges faced by the instructor as she attempted to integrate the service-learning components into an already established curriculum and will share the tools and strategies that she employed with her students. The chapter will address the benefits and challenges as identified by the instructor and the students in the class and will also share several unanticipated rewards that occurred as a result of the philanthropic partnership. The chapter will also offer some practical application ideas for others wishing to incorporate service-learning component into their online classes.

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