Education
Impact Day 2016!
GCOH
For over 2 years we have partnered with Grace Centers of Hope (GCOH), faith-based outreach to homeless and disadvantaged individuals and families, with five 15-week service-learning projects. Clients in the Grace Centers of Hope residency program who have not earned a high school diploma (or equivalent) were required to take in-house classes to prepare for the General Educational Development (GED) test in order to stay in the program. The outcomes of these projects supported the missions of many organizations that offer adult basic education, participants on these service-learning projects included not only instructional designers but also volunteers of Grace Centers of Hope.
GSA
This service-learning project facilitated by members of the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and Designers for Learning, a nonprofit organization that coordinates volunteer service-learning opportunities for instructional design students who seek to gain experience creating instruction and other types of performance improvement solutions for nonprofits and other social enterprises. The focus of this service-learning project is the design of open educational resources and instruction for college and career readiness.
ABE MOOC
This free 12-week course will takes place during the Fall and Spring semesters on Canvas Network. Our massive open online course (MOOC) platform allows students to will engage in a real-world authentic instructional design projects that center on the design and development of open educational resources (OER) for adult basic education (ABE). In this project-based course, the students gain instructional design experience while developing instructional materials that will be made available for free to adult educators and learners in the Adult Learning Zone group on OER Commons and Canvas Commons.