ERIC Number: EJ1302882
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 8
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Transforming a Volunteer Program into a Meaningful Experiential Learning Opportunity
Trottier-Scully, Taylor; Ritchie, Kerry
Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, v3 p52-59 2019
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.
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Program Development, Health Sciences, Clinical Experience, Service Learning, Job Shadowing, Extracurricular Activities, Reflection, Feedback (Response), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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