What is Community-Based Learning?
Combining academic theory with community engagement enhances student learning by offering hands-on experience outside of the classroom and simultaneously provides community organizations and citizen initiatives with needed expertise.
Benefits 0f Community-Based Learning
- provides faculty with the opportunity to make a more meaningful and long-term impact on Marshall University students and in the community.
- enhances student learning by offering hands-on experience outside of the classroom.
- allows faculty to be innovative and creative in their teaching, which increases student retention by providing quality education.
- contributes to a university’s outreach efforts to the local community, the state and beyond.
- enhances academic rigor in a course and enriches classroom discussion and lectures.
- creates opportunities for students to connect key course concepts with relevant real-world experiences.
The CBL Program is committed to assisting faculty throughout the development of a community-based learning course and facilitates a sustainable environment for the faculty to expand their course curriculum.
- Community-Based Learning Workshops
- Applying for a CBL Course Designation
- Forms
- Approved CBL Faculty
- CBL/SL Books Available in CTL Lending Library
- ** A variety of other books are resources are also available through the CTL Lending Library. For a complete list please visit the CTL Lending Library