Facilitating Service Learning in the Online Technical Communication Classroom

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Apr 2016

Facilitating Service Learning in the Online Technical Communication Classroom

Danielle Nielsen Murray State University

Abstract

Drawing from the author’s experience teaching online technical communication courses with an embedded service-learning component, this essay opens the discussion to the potential problems involved in designing online service-learning courses and provides practical approaches to integrating service learning into online coursework. The essay addresses specifically those classrooms where students may be required to develop or find their own service opportunities, whether those opportunities are within their community, on the college or university campus, or in another community. The essay argues by implementing service learning into online classrooms and requiring students to locate their own agencies, students not only build a greater sense of civic engagement because they are working with agencies whose missions they support, but also they develop a greater sense of responsibility for their own education and the coursework they undertake.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 2016-04-01
DOI: 10.1177/0047281616633600
Open Access: Closed
Topics: service learning multimodality online writing instruction technical communication

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