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Graduate students in a service learning design case: the development of a parenting program

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The following design case illustrates the approach a group of advanced graduate online-design students, two design coaches, and an instructor used to design an online instructional intervention as a service-learning project for parents interested in improving their parenting skills with their pre-teens. This design case is distinctive in that it explores the online collaboration for this service-learning project using email, instant messaging, Google Hangout, Google Documents within Google applications and Skype.

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Tracey, M.W., Kacin, S.E. Graduate students in a service learning design case: the development of a parenting program. J Comput High Educ 26, 227–237 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-014-9086-x

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