Service-Learning as Social Education

Service Learning as Scholarship in Teacher Education

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Social Networks as Learning Environments for Higher Education

service quality evaluation of teaching-learning system in higher education

purpose: to provide a model for measuring the services quality from the views of student as the main customer in e-learning institutions with regard to the special features of this university and e-learning approach. methods: in this study, after reviewing the literature on service quality in different areas, 42 main factors affecting the quality of e-universities service has been extracted and...

Service User Involvement in UK Social Service Agencies and Social Work Education

Forming partnerships with service users became a requirement for social work education programs in the United Kingdom as of 2003, leading to the development of innovative approaches to social work education that involve service users as experts who are helping to teach the future generation of social workers. This article examines the perceptions of service user involvement and how it is implem...

Teaching social responsibility through community service-learning in predoctoral dental education.

Social responsibility refers to one's sense of duty to the society in which he or she lives. The Professionalism and Community Service (PACS) dental module at the University of British Columbia is based upon community service-learning and helps dental students to understand the challenges faced by vulnerable segments of the population as they actively reflect on experiences gathered from didact...