A recently published book edited by three Park University faculty brings together a collection of work focusing on combining service-learning and Online learning as a teaching method.

Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship, published by Information Age Publishing (IAP), was edited by Amber Dailey-Hebert, Ph.D., associate professor of education and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning; Emily Donnelli-Sallee, Ph.D., assistant professor of English and assistant director of CETL, and Laurie N. DiPadova-Stocks, Ph.D., dean and professor of public administration in the Hauptmann School for Public Affairs. Park President Beverley Byers-Pevitts, Ph.D., wrote the afterword, and Edward Zlotkowski, nationally recognized expert in service-learning and editor of the 21 volume series of Service-Learning in the Disciplines, provided the forward.

Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship presents a new pedagogical model, "service-e-learning," defined as an integrative pedagogy that engages learners through technology in civic inquiry, service, reflection and action.

"It's unique because it is the first major attempt to deal with service-learning and Online learning together -- the two biggest pedagogical changes in higher education." DiPadova-Stocks said about the book.

Dailey-Hebert said the collection grows out of the research and practice by faculty who have utilized both service-learning and e-learning pedagogies.

"It marks a critical step in understanding and integrating two significant pedagogies in higher education during a time that requires practitioners to consider innovative strategies to teach transferable skills in an increasingly uncertain future for learners," she said. "It is our hope and intent that this book will stimulate and inspire continued investigation of the ways that service-learning and e-learning can combine to create a mutually beneficial learning experience for all involved."

For more information about the book, visit the publisher's web site, www.infoagepub.com, or contact Dailey-Hebert at (816) 584-6330 or amber.daileyt@park.edu, or Donnelli-Sallee at (816) 584-6770 or emilyd@park.edu.