Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Fostering Student Work-based Experiences through Service-Learning

Fostering Student Work-based Experiences through Service-Learning

Jennifer Maddrell
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 29
ISBN13: 9781466683303|ISBN10: 1466683309|EISBN13: 9781466683310
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8330-3.ch008
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Maddrell, Jennifer. "Fostering Student Work-based Experiences through Service-Learning." Cases on Human Performance Improvement Technologies, edited by Jill E. Stefaniak, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 182-210. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8330-3.ch008

APA

Maddrell, J. (2015). Fostering Student Work-based Experiences through Service-Learning. In J. Stefaniak (Ed.), Cases on Human Performance Improvement Technologies (pp. 182-210). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8330-3.ch008

Chicago

Maddrell, Jennifer. "Fostering Student Work-based Experiences through Service-Learning." In Cases on Human Performance Improvement Technologies, edited by Jill E. Stefaniak, 182-210. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8330-3.ch008

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

This case study explains how a complete overhaul to the national high school equivalency test posed a significant organizational challenge to Grace Centers of Hope, a nonprofit based in Pontiac, Michigan in the United States. All adult clients participating in Grace Centers of Hope's one-year drug and alcohol recovery program who are without a high school diploma or equivalent are required to take in-house adult basic education classes to prepare for taking the high school equivalency test. Faced with the need to completely redesign their existing adult basic education program, Grace Centers of Hope reached out to Designers for Learning, an instructional design and performance improvement consultancy that matches nonprofits with instructional design students in service-learning projects. The resulting 100% virtual e-service-learning collaboration among volunteer college students, their faculty sponsors, and other advisors provided Grace Centers of Hope with educational resources to support the organization.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.