Service-Learning & Digital Empowerment Repository of Stories

This page contains a number of inspiring practice examples on how to integrate e-service-learning and digital empowerment. The stories pay explicit attention towards succeses and failures that occured during the trajectory. The service-learning courses described on this webpage are practices from inside and outside the SLIDE project consortium. Read the stories and get inspired!

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Community physiotherapy

@University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Students analysed the online Health Platform of the Government of the Balearic Islands and proposed new, interactive digital materials aimed at specific populations such as young people or the elderly and for the general population, ex. videos, infographics and digital questionnaires.

Keywords: physiotherapy, public health, citizens

educational technology lab

@LUMSA University of Rome, Italy

 Through a wide range of theoretical and practical activities, students gain in-depth knowledge about the use of technologies in the preschool educational context, understanding the relationships between pedagogy, technology and content.

Keywords: educational sciences, preschool, children & parents

Homeschooling for kids

@Pädagogische Hochschule Wien, Austria

Students contribute to a digital platform for elementary school children for school-free times, to supplement school-free time or regular home schooling and thus maintain the children’s learning motivation.

Keywords: educational sciences, digital education, children

digital skills DEVELOPMENT in prison

@Matej Bel University, Slovakia

Prisoners need to develop basic digital skills (like working on a computer with programs like Word and Excel). Students work with small groups of prisoners to, step by step, develop their skills in working with computers.

Keywords: Educational sciences, adult education, prisoners

IT literacy workshops for elderly

@University of Zagreb, Croatia

 The IT literacy workshops are part of the elective master course ‘Service Learning’. Students organized workshops for senior citizens to help them stay up to date with current technology trends.

Keywords: Information sciences, workshops, elderly

Service Learning FOR accessibiLITY

@University of Granada, Spain

Students in this course develop accessible applications for children with special needs to carry out activities of daily life.

Keywords: Computer sciences, application development, persons with disabilities

Hybrid Consultancy

@Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands

Students work on a real-life consultancy cases with a social entrepreneur in the Rotterdam area in a hybrid format.

Keywords: Managerial sciences, consultancy, social entrepreneurs

Design without barriers

@De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Philippines

 “Breaking barriers for blind and visually impaired students through multisensory & experiential design” is a servicelLearning project that uses the ‘Design without Barriers’, an inclusive approach to constructing spaces geared towards the specific needs of persons with disabilities.

Keywords: Architecture, interior design, people with disabilities

Fakeshop: youth prevention

@Pädagogische Hochschule Wien, Austria

Students in this project help make children and adolescents aware of the existence of “fake shops” on the internet. Together they collect information about fake shops and their methods.

Keywords: Educational sciences, digital education, children & youngsters

Digital skills for employability

@University of Granada, Spain

The E-MAD Programme is a training aiming to increase the appropriate use of new technologies to improve digital skills that help students in the search for employment and their full incorporation into the new knowledge society.

Keywords: Transdisciplinary, e-mentoring, students

Technological competences for adults with cerebral and infantile palsy

@University of Zagreb, Croatia

 In this project, students assisted people with cerebral and infantile palsy to overcome barriers in accessing technology and digital skills. The acquisition of these practical skills helped them to better integrate into society and to access information.

Keywords: Information sciences, transdisciplinary, workshops, people with disabilities

ONline counseling for elderly

@Matej Bel University, Slovakia

During the pandemic, future psychologists offered regular counselling to residents in elderly homes via an online application.

Keywords: Psychology, counselling, elderly, covid-19

Teaching practicum for STEM

@National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNCA Bucharest, Romania

Pre-service teachers participate in service-learning projects aimed at increasing student engagement and interest in STEM subjects.

Keywords: Pre-service teachers, learning design, STEM disciplines

Engineer hackathon

@National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNCA Bucharest, Romania

 The course “Instructional Design and Learning Theories” explores the engineering of learning through innovative, interdisciplinary methods. It integrates theoretical knowledge with practical applications, culminating in a hackathon and EduFEST, in which students implement and evaluate their learning designs in real-world educational settings.

Keywords: Pre-service teachers, learning design, STEM disciplines