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Global Citizenship and Social Responsibility are attributes that we wish all our students to have. Service-learning has been shown to be effective at nurturing these attitudes in students, and as such, it has been gaining in popularity in higher education, in Hong Kong and worldwide. However, COVID-19 brought many service projects to a screeching halt. Forced to adapt, many teachers adapted techniques from their online teaching for service-learning. From these stopgap approaches grew innovations that consider blended learning and online communications not just as a Plan B, but as a critical part of the learning experience which could not be achieved otherwise. This paper describes some of these innovations, and suggests some salient issues that have to be addressed for student learning to be successful.
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Ngai, G. (2022). Nurturing Socially Responsible Global Citizens Through Blended Learning: A Journey Through Technology-Enhanced Service-Learning. In: Li, R.C., Cheung, S.K.S., Ng, P.H.F., Wong, LP., Wang, F.L. (eds) Blended Learning: Engaging Students in the New Normal Era. ICBL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08939-8_1
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