Now that we’ve shared fundamental resources for creating a partnership and revising your syllabus to detail service-learning, let’s turn an eye to assessment. Assessment of community-engaged teaching and learning follows the same practices of assessing student learning, with some specialized tools particular to the method. While targeted at service-learning, the support offered below works for… Read more »
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So, What’s the Big Deal with Big Data and Learning Analytics at IUB?
From the moment students apply to college, until years after they graduate, they leave behind a trail of data. Usually stored in Student Information System (SIS) warehouses, this data captures a student’s behavior and performance as well as the choices they make on the path taken toward graduation. In the past few years, more robust… Read more »
Bringing Community Expertise to Your Service-Learning Partnership
In our last Foundations of Service-Learning post, we prepared your community partner relationship. After laying the foundation, how can your community partner join in the education that comes from service? At nearly 30 agencies, Advocates for Community Engagement (ACEs) support service-learning by serving as liaisons among local Bloomington agencies, IU faculty, and IU student service-learning… Read more »
Service-Learning, Community-Engaged Learning and IU Bloomington
Service-learning (SL), like other curricular community-engaged practices, has strong support at IU Bloomington. If you’ve ever wanted to incorporate community service or already use it, this post describes the campus context and support. The IU Bloomington General Education requirements recognize different types of Enriching Educational Experiences in the Shared Goals. These experiences include service-learning, community… Read more »
Collaborating WITH Students Instead of ABOUT Students
During the first week of June, I had the opportunity to attend the International Consortium of Educational Developers (ICED) conference in Atlanta. Peter Felton gave the closing keynote in which he encouraged us to reimagine the place of students in our work. One of the highlights of this talk for me was his categorization of… Read more »
2nd Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Last year, we provided suggestions for your summer reading lists from books we’ve read ourselves. This summer we’d like to provide additional suggestions. Over the summer, CITL consultants plan to collectively read Anton Tolman and Janine Kremling’s Why Students Resist Learning (2016). In this book, the authors propose an integrated model to explain why students may… Read more »