Start Date

6-6-2013 3:10 PM

End Date

6-6-2013 4:40 PM

Description

The Project of Developing Knowledge-sharing Based Study Group via the Internet Platform (SGIP) started by “FJU service-learning promotion committee” in 2006.This project tried to connect under graduated and pupils through study group in the internet platform. Schools located in remote area or schools composed of many disadvantaged pupils (ex. Immigrant, aborigine, raised by grandparents) are our first priority to serve. Teachers in primary school selected picture books and make some topics for discussion in the platform. Undergraduates who take courses with service-learning project are required to interact via the platform with pupils. During the semester, undergraduate students are requested to visit pupils once or twice in order to have personal contact with pupils. Education resources especially in information science between town and country had a great gap in Taiwan. The project is supposed to reduce the difference.

The roles of teachers and students are discussed as below:

1) Professor: deliver a course with the Service-Learning project; supervise undergraduates to participate study groups in internet and to exert the class-visit plan.

2) Teachers: set the topics for study groups in the net regularly; direct pupils to join the study groups weekly, and assist undergraduates to have a class visit.

3) Undergraduates: participate the study groups in the net weekly, have a class visit at least once, and attend training classes held by Service-Learning Center. In average, 3~6 persons have been assigned as a unit to accompany a class of pupils for 10 weeks.

There were 250~300 undergraduates and 1200 pupils in average participating in the project every year. Six theses about the project, advised by Dr.R.J.Pan, are accomplished. The themes include emotional education (Chiu, 2011), self-acknowledgement (Lin, 2011), parent-child reading (Cheng, 2011), information education (Teng, 2012), peer-relationship (Chuang, 2012), multicultural education (Chen, 2012). We are looking forward to inviting other university to join the project in order to serve more pupils in different area. The study group platform could also be used to serve overseas Chinese for learning Chinese.

Recommended Citation

Pan, R. J. (2013, June). The project of developing knowledge-sharing based on the study group via the internet platform in Fu Jen Catholic University. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.

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Jun 6th, 3:10 PM Jun 6th, 4:40 PM

The project of developing knowledge-sharing based on the study group via the internet platform in Fu Jen Catholic University

The Project of Developing Knowledge-sharing Based Study Group via the Internet Platform (SGIP) started by “FJU service-learning promotion committee” in 2006.This project tried to connect under graduated and pupils through study group in the internet platform. Schools located in remote area or schools composed of many disadvantaged pupils (ex. Immigrant, aborigine, raised by grandparents) are our first priority to serve. Teachers in primary school selected picture books and make some topics for discussion in the platform. Undergraduates who take courses with service-learning project are required to interact via the platform with pupils. During the semester, undergraduate students are requested to visit pupils once or twice in order to have personal contact with pupils. Education resources especially in information science between town and country had a great gap in Taiwan. The project is supposed to reduce the difference.

The roles of teachers and students are discussed as below:

1) Professor: deliver a course with the Service-Learning project; supervise undergraduates to participate study groups in internet and to exert the class-visit plan.

2) Teachers: set the topics for study groups in the net regularly; direct pupils to join the study groups weekly, and assist undergraduates to have a class visit.

3) Undergraduates: participate the study groups in the net weekly, have a class visit at least once, and attend training classes held by Service-Learning Center. In average, 3~6 persons have been assigned as a unit to accompany a class of pupils for 10 weeks.

There were 250~300 undergraduates and 1200 pupils in average participating in the project every year. Six theses about the project, advised by Dr.R.J.Pan, are accomplished. The themes include emotional education (Chiu, 2011), self-acknowledgement (Lin, 2011), parent-child reading (Cheng, 2011), information education (Teng, 2012), peer-relationship (Chuang, 2012), multicultural education (Chen, 2012). We are looking forward to inviting other university to join the project in order to serve more pupils in different area. The study group platform could also be used to serve overseas Chinese for learning Chinese.