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HKPolyUx: Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice

This course aims to introduce you as teachers to the concept of service-learning, and to equip you with the pedagogical knowledge and skills required for planning and implementing a service-learning programme for your students.

“服务学习: 教学方法与实践” 网上课程,旨在向作为教师的您介绍服务学习教学法的概念,并提供所需的教学知识和技能,让您可以为学生计划和推行合适的服务学习课程。

4 weeks
3–5 hours per week
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
This course is archived
Future dates to be announced

About this course

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At The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, we consider the civic development of our students as one of our core values. In order to achieve this, we have incorporated a number of initiatives on civic awareness, social responsibility, and community engagement into our courses. One of the core elements of this initiative is our institutional commitment to service-learning.

The University’s pioneering service-learning programmes integrate academic study with community service, inspiring our students to apply professional knowledge and skills to give back to society. As of August 2018, over 16,000 students have spent more than 660,000 hours providing services for over 80,000 people within and outside of Hong Kong.

Through this introductory course, we aim to share with you our own experience, and the most recent academic research, methods, and best practices, in order to help you build your own service-learning programme.

In this course, we have incorporated up-to-date theory, multimedia, and peer-to-peer interaction to bring our own expertise together with the benefits of collaborative learning to create an engaging instructional environment. We have brought our own institutions' expertise in service-learning together with experienced teachers from around the world, and academic experts in the field to give you a range of perspectives and make the material as useful as possible.

香港理工大学(理大)相信学生的公民发展是教育的核心价值之一。为达到这一教育目标,理大在课程内加入了不少有助提升学生的公民意识、社会责任感和社区参与度的元素。其中一个重要举措,就是承担推行服务学习的责任。理大的服务学习课程把社区服务与学科学习结合,以鼓励学生运用专业知识和技能回馈社会。至2018年8月,已有超过16,000名理大学生在香港及海外地区为80,000多人提供660,000小时以上的服务。

我们希望透过这个入门课程,与您分享理大的经验,以及最新的学术研究、方法和最佳做法,以协助您开发自己的服务学习课程。

这个课程包含最新的理论和多媒体学习材料,并采用互动的学习模式,使我们的专业知识能结合协作学习的好处,创造了一个利于投入学习的环境。除了分享理大在推行服务学习方面的认识和经验外,这个课程也会提供世界各地在这方面经验丰富的教师和专家的见解,为您扩阔视野,务求令学习材料更能满足您的需要。

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcripts: English, 中文
  • Associated skills:Collaborative Learning, Multilingualism, Pedagogy, Planning, Research

What you'll learn

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Explain the concept and principles of service-learning
解释服务学习的概念和原理

• Recognise the benefits of service-learning for your students, yourself and your institution, and your target community
认识服务学习对您的学生、您本人和您任教的学校,以及接受服务的目标社群的好处

• Develop an effective service-learning programme relevant to your discipline, experience, and expertise
因应您任教的科目、经验和专长而设计出有效的服务学习计划

• Explore strategies and methods to facilitate student reflections
探索适当的策略和方法来协助学生反思

• Design effective assessments of student learning in service-learning
设计适当的评估方法来量度学生的服务学习成果

This course consists of six units, they are:
本课程共分六个单元。内容如下:

* Unit 1: What is Service-Learning?
单元一:何谓服务学习

* Unit 2: Benefits and Challenges of Service-Learning
单元二:服务学习的好处和挑战

* Unit 3: Developing and Sustaining Community Partnership
单元三:社区伙伴的建立和持续发展

* Unit 4: Designing and Implementing Service-Learning
单元四:服务学习计划的设计和推行

* Unit 5: Facilitating Reflection
单元五:如何协助学生反思

  • Unit 6: Assessing Student Outcomes in Service-Learning
    单元六:如何评估学生的服务学习成果

The course also requires the learners to complete an assessment at the end of each unit and a course feedback survey.

More about this course

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Acknowledgements

鸣谢

This course was partly developed as a multi-institutional project with funding from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong and the participating universities titled: "Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions".

 

部分课程是由大学教育资助委员会及各参与大学联合资助开发的跨院校项目,题为 “Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions"

 

 

We would also like to thank the students, staff, and community partners who took part in the interviews and shared their experience and practical wisdom with us throughout the development of this course.

此外,我们亦感谢在整个课程开发过程中接受我们访问,并与我们分享经验和实用智慧的学生、教职员和社区合作伙伴。

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