Community-based service-learning is increasingly common in dental education. By definition, service-learning combines educational goals with service to the community, and the community and school are equal partners. The three main goals of service-learning are improving learning, promoting civic engagement, and strengthening communities. There have been calls from many groups to reform dental e...

Service-learning in higher education has gained increasing attention in recent years, but at most universities it remains an activity that is largely peripheral to the dominant concerns of the institution. Service learning has generally been defined as coursework that places undergraduates in community-service activities and relates those activities to academic content. In principle, service-le...

I view the service-learning paradigm as an augmentation of the traditional view "learning in order to serve" by an added emphasis on the service, as in "serving while learning." I argue that service-learning fully supports active learning, critical thinking, and creative thinking. I describe my experience in designing a service-learning course on Software Engineering in Computer Science Departm...