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Transforming a Volunteer Program into a Meaningful Experiential Learning Opportunity
- Source :
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Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching . 2019 3:52-59. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Through a previous review of high impact practices at our institution, we identified that health science students have very few opportunities to engage in experiential learning (EL) in the current curriculum. This paper describes our work to transform an existing volunteer opportunity at an allied health clinic, into a meaningful, student-driven, co-curricular EL opportunity. Specifically, we incorporated critical EL elements (i.e. reflection, feedback) into the existing volunteer program and developed five program specific learning outcomes (LO). We then tracked volunteers' self-selected participation in a variety of activities and collected volunteers' and practitioners' assessment of LO achievement. This paper presents LO data from the first offering of this EL opportunity and discusses the challenges we faced and lessons learned through this process so that it may inform other institutions considering implementing co-curricular EL opportunities.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2560-6050
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1302882
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Speeches/Meeting Papers<br />Reports - Descriptive