scholarly journals Construction Management Service Learning: A “How To” Process for Success

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
R. Casey Cline ◽  
Ken Robson ◽  
Michael Kroth
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Practical Standpoint

To ensure that students are prepared for positions in the construction industry, construction management education programs expose students to industry relevant construction management (CM) theory and practice. Traditional transmission teaching methodologies, while arguably effective for teaching management theory and practice, are not as effective for the transfer of practical leadership skills and knowledge of construction specific processes. As an alternative teaching strategy, many CM programs incorporate service-learning (S-L) into curricula; providing students practical experience, focusing on the acquisition of knowledge through goal setting, thinking, planning, experimentation, observation, and reflection.        However, from a practical standpoint, the development of a service-learning project can be a daunting task for the educator. Beyond determining a suitable project, a great deal of work must be undertaken to ensure a successful learning experience for the learner, as well as a successful project for the project owner or community partner. Processes must be put in place to ensure that the project is well developed, the student is practicing relevant CM skills, the project is completed in a timely manner to the satisfaction of the owner, and that the student learns through active reflection.        Thus, this paper is presented not as a project specific case study, but an attempt to simplify for CM educators the development of CM S-L projects and to provide a step-by-step process to facilitate a successful learning experience. 

scholarly journals Conceptual Framework for Assessing Process Variables Salient for Service-Learning Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka Hing Lau ◽  
Robin Snell
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Effective Integration

Service-learning is an established pedagogy which integrates experiential learning with community service. It has been widely adopted in higher education around the world including in Hong Kong, yet the key ingredients that determine its successful impacts for its stakeholders have not been fully assessed. This study reviewed the past literature, which indicates the key ingredients that may be found in successful service-learning programmes. We identify six key ingredients: students provide meaningful service; the community partner representative plays a positive role; effective preparation and support for students; effective reflection by students; effective integration of service-learning within the course design; and stakeholder synergy in terms of collaboration, communication and co-ownership. In order to obtain an inter-subjectively fair and trustworthy data set, reflecting the extent to which those key ingredients are perceived to have been achieved, we propose a multi-stakeholder approach for data collection, involving students, instructors and community partner representatives.

Writing Partners

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-222
Author(s):  
Sarah Blomeley ◽  
Amy Hodges Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
College Level ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Community Members ◽  
International Service Learning ◽  
International Service ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Writing Assignment

This chapter describes and analyzes a writing assignment, an oral history project, developed for a college-level service-learning composition class. In bridging the writer with a single community partner and inviting the pair to jointly compose a memoir, this assignment can create a successful service-learning experience by engaging students and community members in projects that are beneficial and hold important personal, social, and political implications. The chapter also considers how the project, up to this point used successfully in local service communities, might fare in international service learning contexts.

scholarly journals Students as Community Vaccinators: Implementation of a Service-Learning COVID-19 Vaccination Program

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Griswold ◽  
Julia Klein ◽  
Neville Dusaj ◽  
Jeff Zhu ◽  
Allegra Keeler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
New York State ◽  
Vaccination Program ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Vaccination Programs ◽  
Academic Medical

Background: Service-learning is an integral component of medical education. While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive educational disruptions, it has also catalyzed innovation in service-learning as real-time responses to pandemic-related problems. For example, the limited number of qualified providers was a potential barrier to local and national SARS-CoV-2 vaccination efforts. Foreseeing this hurdle, New York State temporarily allowed healthcare professional trainees to vaccinate, enabling medical students to support an overwhelmed healthcare system and contribute to the community. Yet, it was the responsibility of medical schools to interpret these rules and implement the vaccination programs. Here the authors describe a service-learning vaccination program directed towards underserved communities. Methods: Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) rapidly developed a faculty-led curriculum to prepare students to communicate with patients about the COVID-19 vaccines and to administer intramuscular injections. Qualified students were deployed to public vaccination clinics located in underserved neighborhoods across New York City in collaboration with an established community partner. The educational value of the program was evaluated with retrospective survey. Results: Throughout the program, which lasted from February to June 2021, 128 WCM students worked at 103 local events, helping to administer 26,889 vaccine doses. Analysis of student evaluations revealed this program taught fundamental clinical skills, increasing comfort giving intramuscular injection from 2% to 100% and increasing comfort talking to patients about the COVID-19 vaccine from 30% to 100%. Qualitatively participants described the program as a transformative service-learning experience. Conclusion: As new virus variants emerge, nations battle recurrent waves of infection, and vaccine eligibility expands to include children and boosters, the need for effective vaccination plans continues to grow. The program described here offers a novel framework that academic medical centers could adapt to increase vaccine access in their local community and provide students with a uniquely meaningful educational experience.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF SERVICE LEARNING IN THE US STUDENTS’ CITIZENSHIP FORMATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-227
Author(s):  
Yuliia SHARANOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa

Introductain. The article highlights the ed-ucational potential of service learning in the US higher education in the process of forming students' citizenship. Teaching community service as a highly effective peda-gogical practice in American higher education institutions ensures the development of students' readiness for a meaningful and responsible life in an interdependent world characterized by uncertainty, rapid change and destabilizing inequality, and serves as a basis for forming students’ citizenship.The definition of community service learning by the American educators, who see it as a form of learning, as well as a teaching strategy that combines sociallysignifi-cant activities with an educational process based on reflection with the view to enriching students' learning experience, building civic responsibility and strengthening communities, is considered. The basic requirements of conformity of service learning in universities and colleges of the USA to the status of educational discipline are characterized.It is noted that teaching service learning in higher ed-ucation institutions in the United States promotes, through dialogue and cooperation, the social and cognitive devel-opment of students who, coming from the comfort zone to the contact zone, learn to interact effectively with each other and other people as well

A Teaching Strategy for Advanced Manufacturing Courses

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basel Alsayyed Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Program Objective ◽  
Theory Versus ◽  
Course Outcomes ◽  
Initial Results

In this paper, the author presents an experiment for teaching advanced manufacturing courses with the objective to maximize the learning experience based on course outcomes. A CAM course was selected to run the experiment on the students in two male sections and two female sections. The course’s outcomes were drafted based on the mechanical engineering program’s objectives. Their focus is on fulfilling as many of the program outcomes as possible. The level of fulfilling a program objective by a course outcome is then also monitored. The strategy focuses on increasing the hands on experience of the students as well as introducing more computer and technology content in the course. Every activity will be evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively. Based on the progress in a regular semester, the students’ performance is monitored and a calibration of theory versus practical experience is done accordingly. Initial results reveal that the sooner the practical part of the course is introduced the better the results will be for both understanding the practical as well as the theoretical part of the course.

Serving an International Higher Education Partner Using a Problem-Based Learning Format

2016 ◽  
pp. 375-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Marangoni ◽  
Rhonda Haley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Doctor Of Physical Therapy

Merida, Mexico, a community partner for service learning with Wheeling Jesuit University's (WJU) Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program, is a city with a population of 800,000 people. This city lacked rehabilitation services to treat cardiopulmonary conditions, and the school of rehabilitation at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán (UADY) had no established educational programs addressing these conditions. In 2013 two English-speaking faculty members from the WJU DPT program provided the service of knowledge-sharing to this higher education partner through an extensive cardiopulmonary rehabilitation workshop in Merida. The workshop participants included physical therapists, occupational therapists, a physician, and rehabilitation students, all with Spanish as their primary language. Written and spoken language was identified as the primary barrier to providing the necessary education to the international students. The WJU Basic Science and Physical Therapy Skills courses, written in the English language, follow a problem-based format where students are asked to use resources to answer questions regarding patients with cardiopulmonary problems. These courses became the foundation for the solution to the language barrier problem. The information and students' answers from WJU courses were translated by UADY university professors over a several month period of time. During the workshop, the participants were separated into groups, each researching a topic using the provided translated materials to educate the others on their assigned topics. The participants used various methods to convey their new knowledge. There were interpreters available at all times during the workshop. Surveys at the conclusion of the workshop indicated that the learning experience was effective and enjoyable.

scholarly journals Using The Baccalaureate Essentials To Create Context: Evaluation Of An Innovative Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Brooke A. Flinders
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Professional Nursing Practice ◽  
Baccalaureate Education ◽  
Centered Care

The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice (AmericanAssociation of Colleges of Nursing, 2008) seek to communicate standards that will prepare graduates to function within a complex healthcare system. The document highlights concepts from patient-centered care to evidence-based practice (Commission on CollegiateNursing Education). A service-learning experience was facilitated for junior-levelnursing students and they were asked to reflect on their learning outcomes using the nine essentials as a guiding framework. Themes were identified within the nine sub-categories and through overall analysis. By using standardized disciplinary outcomes to develop a sense of the bigger picture for students, it is possible to help them make connections between theory and practice.

Some Imperatives of the Russian Economic Leadership: The Development of Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
O. S. Sukharev
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Compensation System ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Science Field ◽  
Labor Compensation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Practical Standpoint

The paper outlines system capabilities of Russia to join the scientific and technological leaders through changes in the staff policy in the science field, which was the purpose of the research.The subject of the research is institutional changes occurring in science and, particularly, staff training. The status of the Russian science is assessed in terms of changes in the basic rules and their adjustment with an emphasis on material and non-material incentives, staff rotation and training of young scientists. The paper proves that the frequency and content of institutional changes affect the quality of the scientific development and the training of scientific staff; moreover, copying the rules already in use reduces the competitive potential of science. From the scientific and practical standpoint, the research is novel in that it formulates proposals for establishing a labor compensation system and introduction of basic institutions (rules) to ensure the functioning of the scientific sphere and the efficiency of functions immanent to the latter. The paper proposes a “scientific product” doctrine that can be used for assessment of a scientist’s labor, according to which the scientist creates a product that is assessed not by the citation frequency or the number of published articles and books but by the importance of discoveries in theory and practice, the significance of new formulas and methods developed. It is suggested that the scientist’s labor compensation system be presented by two levels: the current salary and the estimated value of the total scientific product created. The problem of scientific work incentives can be solved by introducing a special tariffqualification grid tied to the system of the scientist’s promotion.

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