A study that tries to show, in a nutshell, "that large numbers of young Americans are not fully engaged - intellectually or otherwise - in the teaching and learning enterprise. As many as half of all high school students find their classes boring, and substantial majorities see no particular reason to get good grades in school or to refrain from cheating on tests. Disengagement also extends to activities fundamental to democratic society, such as voting and keeping up with current events. Service-learning has proved to be a powerful antidote to student disengagement..." I have advocated elsewhere that online learning has the potential to get students out of the classroom and into the community, where they belong. Perhaps service learning is one way to do it. It would be interesting to see whether there are any studies linking online learning and service learning.
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