Tag Archives: HLSC2241

Creating an online course on engaging families and communities

Posted on 28 June 2017 by

From 2018, an undergraduate online elective I teach on community engagement at the University of Newcastle will be one of a growing number of courses (or subjects) the Family Action Centre is offering in family studies at both an undergraduate … Continue reading →

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Keeping contact with students in online teaching

Posted on 30 August 2016 by

I’ve recently started emailing students more frequently in the online elective on community engagement I teach at the University of Newcastle. The students come from a wide variety of disciplines: since it started in 2008 there have been 1389 students … Continue reading →

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Types of community engagement – creating boxes?

Posted on 25 July 2016 by

Community engagement covers a very broad range of meanings, aims and strategies. In teaching community engagement to undergraduate and postgraduate students, I need to find ways to explore the diversity of practice that are relevant to students from a wide … Continue reading →

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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

Posted on 20 July 2016 by

I’ve decided to make this  entertaining and surprising TEDx talk, by Luis von Ahn, required watching in an online undergraduate course (or subject) I teach on community engagement (HLSC2241). Although the course is online, I haven’t included much material about … Continue reading →

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Updating a course on community engagement

Posted on 1 February 2016 by

I’m in the process of restructuring the undergraduate online elective I teach on community engagement (HLSC2241). I have made quite a few chances since developing it in 2008, but I’ve been finding students were confusing some of the concepts involved … Continue reading →

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Some good articles/links for the start of semester

Posted on 25 July 2015 by

Semester 2 starts on Monday so I’ve been busy getting a number of subjects ready. This semester I’m responsible for two undergraduate electives (Engaging communities and Volunteerism – perspectives and management) and a postgraduate subject (School and community partnerships). Because … Continue reading →

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3 types of community engagement (with related concepts and literature)

Posted on 3 July 2015 by

In the last post I discussed the first of two challenges faced by students in critiquing an example of community engagement: selecting a good example of community engagement. In this post I’ll discuss the second challenge: deciding what literature and … Continue reading →

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Selecting an example of community engagement to critique

Posted on 1 July 2015 by

I ask students doing an online subject on community engagement at the University of Newcastle to critique an example of community engagement as one of their major assessments and, because the students come from a wide range of disciplines, it … Continue reading →

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