Introduction





Community Service Learning (CSL) is an educational approach that integrates service in the community with intentional activities. Within effective CSL efforts, members of both educational institutions and community organizations work together towards outcomes that are mutually beneficial.





Known by a variety of terms (e.g. service learning, community based learning), CSL programs are most effective when they include key elements drawn from experimental education theory, especially developing critical thinking and intentionally facilitating reflection. Carefully designed and implemented CSL programs and courses assist students to make meaning from their community experiences, to connect experience outside of the classroom to more theoretical study, and to develop as individuals in relation to their values, their sense of social responsibility, and their leadership skills.





Inknowledge Inc. present Community Service Learning app in Mentis to describe and document the community and service learning projects conducted by faculty members, students and share the projects on their profiles. Community Service Learning also allows the administration to run reports on the submitted projects for various internal and external reporting requirements.













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You can modify your participation survey to include additional data points and always have the most accurate information about your civic engagement at your fingertips.

You can tag individuals and give credit to one or more key individuals (both faculty and staff) on the project. Tagging people not only allows individuals to be listed on your project but also allows them to import the projects onto their projects reducing duplicate data entry.

You can allow your user to link one or more community partners to each project and know exactly what partnerships are building around you.

You can run exports on all data captured in the system and export it out for sharing if required. Community Service Learning also lets you directly export participation survey and effectiveness metrics data over a period of time for submission to the President's Community Service Honor Roll.

You have administrative options, complete access to the entire source code and granular level control of the data makes the system fully customizable and adaptable to your unique requirements.

You can integrate Community Service Learning app with the other apps in Mentis or create your own apps. All apps in Mentis can interact with each other, and with other third-party systems, via services. Data generated in Community Service Learning app can e easily consumed by the other thereby reducing data redundancy and improving the overall integrity of data.

You can identify, strengthen, and create collaborative community partnerships that advance your university's mission.

You can assign keywords to projects to identify issues that are critical to the success of your organization and community you belong to. Strategic issues can be addressed and used to build a foundation for future and forward-thinking strategies that can help your organization seize current opportunities.

You can increase awareness and disseminate information about your community projects to both internal and external stakeholders. At most organizations, information about such projects generally resides with one department collecting this data, or within the heads of your faculty conducting these projects. The system allows your organization to share the information via individual profiles, reports or special purpose websites not only within the organization but throughout your community and move a little closer to your goal of social change.

Information once in the system can be used by the public, by collaborators, by faculty's managing units or by the university administration in a number of ways - all without inundating the faculty with additional requests for information. Faculty can include information into their annual reviews and directly receive feedback from review committees on their community project.

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