Service-Elearning

This edited collection, the first of its kind, marries the two fastest-growing movements in higher education:service-learning and eLearning. While these two innovative pedagogies are widely assumed to beincompatible, this collection highlights their complementary approaches as a new teaching method for 21stCentury learners. The collection offers a new pedagogical model-service-eLearning-defined as anintegrative pedagogy that engages learners through technology in civic inquiry, service, reflection, andaction.Service-learning, which focuses on involvement with local needs and reflective thinking, appears to contrastwith eLearning, that implies autonomous education through technology. The goal of this edited collection isto consider how these two educational innovations have and can combine to further encourage civicengagement while meeting the demands of an increasingly global, competitive, and diverse educationalmarketplace. This edited collection, defines and addresses the emergent blending of service-learning andeLearning to create a new integrated pedagogical model: service-eLearning.Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship starts a conversation about the marriage of two powerfuleducational innovations. While readers of this collection may be familiar with existing work on servicelearningand technology use, this book demonstrates the potential of a new model which acknowledges eLearning as a pedagogy within its own right.The new model presented here blends eLearning pedagogy with existing approaches to service-learning. The result is an integrated pedagogicalapproach: Service-eLearning. As the work presented herein highlights, service-eLearning responds to the challenges of today's rapidly-changing,technology-mediated reality.