Mini Handbook - VWC: Faculty/Staff Web - Virginia Wesleyan College

Reaching Beyond the Classroom
Community-Based and Problem Based Learning
(this page under construction)
Collaborating: Community-Based Learning
Contact: Diane Hotaling, Director of Community
Service/Batten 25/#3216/ dhotaling@vwc.edu
This page will be completed following feedback from the May 20, 2010
Curricular Workshop on Community-Based Learning. In the meantime, there
are excellent resources for all types of practical and pedagogical matters on
the Campus Compact website:
Campus Compact« http://www.campuscompact.org>>
From the Campus Compact Faculty Resources Link
you can look at examples
and ideas from other schools about:
• models of service-learning and other programs
• syllabi from across disciplines and institutions
• how to create an engaged
• how to develop students as colleagues and leaders
(we are in the process ofbecoming Campus Compact members)
Problem-Based Learning (PLB)
This is a tremendously important pedagogy for applying knowledge and
know-how in case studies; it needs expansion but for now just a couple of
websites will have to do. (See also Nilson's Teaching at its Best, 167f)
University of Delaware had a useful site which includes Sample Problems,
courses and syllabi, articles and books, etc.
niversity of Buffalo's and Learning Center for also has a useful
site on P-B.L:
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Possibilities for collaboration: Disciplines and
Student Affairs
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