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wb11 12/31/2009 9:50:30

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//David Mullins, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, dmullins@sf.edu//
 * Project Management: Service Learning in the Online Environment**

This presentation provides an overview of two online courses that include service learning projects taught through a project management-based pedagogy. The courses each meet five learning outcomes as part of the university's general education core curriculum. The learning outcomes each relate to a dimension of leadership, responsibility, and​ the needs of the disadvantaged. Through formal project management techniques, students learn practical skills in teambuilding, leadership, time management, budgeting, goal setting, and evaluation. Students then apply that knowledge by leading project teams intended to make positive change in the community. Each student is required to lead a three- to five-person team. The student selects volunteers for their teams, and they lead their team to develop a project that supports the Northeast Indiana Readers Radio Service, a radio station that reads print materials for persons who are vision impaired. In one class, students lead a team to develop a public service announcement, related to health issues , that is broadcast by the radio station. In the other class, the students each lead a team that develops a fundraising activity to purchase the special radios needed to listen to the radio station broadcasts. The delivery methodology is entirely online. The session will provide a brief overview of formal project management techniques, but it will focus primarily on the incorporation of service learning into the online environment.

All Audiences online service learning