E-SERVICES

E-Services

E-Services

Introduction

E-service learning is an electronic type of empirical education. It is conveyed on-line and utilises the Internet and modern technologies that authorize pupils, staff, plus society partners to team up at a distance in an ordered, focused, experiential service learning movement, which at the same time encourages civic responsibility and convenes society requirements (Cuban, 2007).

Advantages of E-Service Learning

Expands contact to an extensive selection of service-learning experiences in the society (Berke, 2006);

Ensures diversity of experiences;

Improves the potential to standardize service learning experiences across the curriculum;

Assists in efficient use of staff resources to create, monitor, and evaluate service learning courses.

E-Service Learning Model

Addresses a need in the society (campus, local, and possibly regional)

Meets one or more course objectives

Demonstrates a clear linkage amid the service activity and the course content

Takes up reciprocity amid course and society that results in pupils' increased civic awareness and engagement

Takes up structured reflection

Takes up a collaboration with an appropriate agency representative

Takes up a minimum of 15 hours of pupil service in the society

Takes up pupil teams working collaboratively with society board and firms (Lagemann, 2005)

The society partner as well as the education board or college should be technologically equipped to adjust asynchronous communication

Pupils, staff, and the society organization should receive training and exhibit proficiency in the technologies to be used such as web conferencing.

Results

Increased pupil learning

Curricular emphasis on civic engagement

Promotion of education board partnership goals

Improvement of pupil job readiness

Enhanced relationship amid the college or education board and the society

Create prospects for society firms that might be geographically or structurally challenged to adjust customary service learning (Cuban, 2007)

Expand possibilities for pupils to benefit real world experience at a variety of firms

Expand potential society partnerships for the education board or college

Reduce geographic constraints for pupils and partner participants

Pupil Results Associated with E-Service Learning

Pupils are exposed to aspects ...