Workshops

Preparing students for service-learning

Student learning through reflection (including the use of technology in reflection)

Assessment of student outcomes/programme assessment (getting beyond the satisfaction survey and self-reported learning)

Facilitating student development with regards to social justice issues

Fostering student ambassadorship and leadership in and through service-learning

Supporting publicly engaged scholarship

Faculty recruitment and development (pedagogy of service-learning)

Engaged departments

Interdisciplinary service-learning projects

Critical vs. traditional service-learning

Critical vs. traditional service-learning

Technology for administration of service-learning programmes

Marketing our work (e.g., telling our story, getting faculty to attend events, and staying relevant and important)

What’s in a name? Service-learning, community-based learning, community engaged learning… making the transition from an old name to a new one… changing the model vs. merely updating the name?

Research on existing practices in collaboration with faculty, partners and students

Community partner development: What criteria are used to select partners? (managing partnerships, reciprocity)

Assessment of community impact

Models of community engagement and paths toward greater community engagement

Service-learning models that move the needle; the place of service-learning in real community change-making

Community partners as actors in pedagogical process (reflection, evaluation of students, guest lectures in courses, etc.)

Research on service-learning results: student outcomes, community outcomes, institutional outcomes

How to organize service-learning research?

Other themes not included in the above themes

• three presentations of a paper/good practice
  (+:- 15 minutes + 15 minutes questions and interaction
• presentations should focus on a similar theme,
  preferably from different institutions or countries
• individual submission will be grouped together with speakers of a similar theme.

• structured set of activities for groups of participants
• can be facilitated by one or more organizers who present a particular case and who work together with the audience

Some Inspiration…

If you want to tackle specific (research) questions, together with your audience, and you need a ‘warm-up’ :

Poll Everywhere transforms one-sided presentations into two-way conversations with the audience. This web-based audience response system lets you embed interactive activities directly into your presentation. The audience responds on the web or via SMS texting on their phones.

https://www.polleverywhere.com/

If you want to trigger and facilitate collective brainstorming on the topic of your workshop in order to generate new ideas:

When you want people to ideate quickly on an theme during a design sprint or workshop, Crazy Eights is a fantastic technique for every designer to use. If you want to run a crazy eights exercise to generate design ideas, go through step by step instructions for running a successful Crazy Eight exercise

https://www.iamnotmypixels.com/download-my-crazy-eights-templates-for-your-next-design-sprint-or-workshop/

and download the following templates:

http://www.servicedesigntoolkit.org/downloads.html

http://www.kessels-smit.com/files/Brainstormen.pdf

If you are looking for an informal method to stimulate participation and interaction:

http://www.theworldcafe.com/key-concepts-resources/world-cafe-method/

http://www.click4it.org/images/a/a5/World.pdf

• a more informal and ad hoc nature in comparison to a workshop
• a form of academic discussion
• participants agree on a specific topic or text to discuss and debate.
• each person is given equal rights to participate, as illustrated by the idea of a circular layout referred to in the term round table

• hosted by one or more experts on a particular matter who agree to answer and discuss particular questions, problems, proposals of conference participants
• participants can register in advance for a 15 minute talk with one or more table experts.

• presentation of research information, good practices / your organization in the form of a paper poster
• the conference organizer will set up the show floor, you bring your poster
• will be organized during lunchtime on Thursday 19th of September