Share Paper: Impact on Student Engagement from the Integration of e-Service Learning in an Online Training and Development Graduate Course

  1. Michelle Bartlett, North Carolina State University, United States
Monday, March 6 11:30-11:50 AM Capitol H

Abstract: Service learning has been found to have many positive benefits for students in college level courses (Marts, 2016). However, not much service learning is done in the online learning environment (e-Service learning). The purpose of this study is to implement and examine an e-Service Learning assignment in an online graduate course. This study seeks to find out if e-Service Learning assignment has similar positive benefits found in extant literature on service learning in face-to-face learning environments. Specifically, the researcher will be looking at students’ perceptions of engagement levels (student-to-peer, student-to-content, student-to-instructor, and student-to-community) regarding the completion of an e-service learning ...