Service-Learning in Online Courses

Online Resources:

The Center for Digital Civic Engagement, housed out of Minnesota Campus Compact, offers a very comprehensive list of print, video, and online learning resources. 

The Service-Learning Handbook for Distance Learning, published out of the University of South Dakota in 2009, is a particularly useful guide for curriculum design and implementation.

Print Resources:

Bennett, G., & Green, F. (2001). Promoting service learning via online instruction. College Student Journal, 35(4), 491.

Burton, E. M. (2003). Distance learning and service-learning in the accelerated format. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 97, 63-71.

Dailey-Hebert, A., Donnelli, S. E., & DiPadova, L. N. (2008). Service-eLearning: Educating for citizenship. Charlotte, NC: IAP-Information Age Pub.

"The collection offers a new pedagogical model-service-eLearning-defined as an integrative pedagogy that engages learners through technology in civic inquiry, service, reflection, and action...The goal of this edited collection is to consider how service-learning and eLearning have and can combine to further encourage civic engagement while meeting the demands of an increasingly global, competitive, and diverse educational marketplace." (adapted from Amazon)

Guthrie, K. L., & McCracken, H. (2010). Making a difference online: Facilitating service-learning through distance education. Internet and Higher Education, 13(3), 153-157.

Steffes, J. S. (2004). Creating powerful learning environments beyond the classroom. Change, 36(3), 46.

Strait, J., & Lima, M. (2009). The future of service-learning: New solutions for sustaining and improving practice. Sterling, Va: Stylus.

"Divided into three thematic parts, this book successively covers institutional and administrative issues; service-learning as a springboard for research; and new practices that address emerging challenges and changing student populations." (back cover)

Strait, J., & Sauer, T. (2004). Constructing experiential learning for online courses: The birth of e-service. Educause Quarterly, 27(1), 62-65.