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eservicelearning: Creating Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement Through Online E-Book

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Read your free e-book: http://appgame.space/mebk/50/en/B019FVVQXY/book given the growing popularity of both e-learning and service-learning, something powerful is likely to happen when these two educational practices converge. And as is described in the chapters of this volume, e-service-learning has the potential to provide students with high impact, transformative learning experiences. It is through this volume that we learn how eservice-learning contains features of both e-learning and service-learning, but yet its essence is one that is distinct from either of these foundational instructional practices. Like the emergence of a new color when two distinct colors are blended, eservice-learning takes the high impact components of two different pedagogies to create a new, different, and unique educational experience for students.as one of the first volumes to explore the practice of eservice-learning, Eservice-learning: Creating Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement through Online and Hybrid Courses not only offers practitioners an understanding of the essentials of this emerging pedagogy, but it also explores important and key questions on the subject, laying the groundwork for further exploration and study. The field of eservice-learning is sure to gain prominence and popularity in the coming years. We will certainly look back at this book as a seminal volume that sought to unveil the power, complexity, and potential of this promising educational practice.andrew Furco , University of Minnesota 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.eservice-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