Figure 1
Presence of SL Programmes at Spanish Higher Education Institutions (HEI)
Note: Data collected in Spanish Ministry of Education & the University Network of Service Learning (2017)
Table 1
vSL Project Description and Methodology
| UNED | ENS | |
|---|---|---|
| Pedagogical intention | Deeper understanding of their career’s subjects as well as development of ethical and civic competences | |
| Service goal | Improving oral proficiency for students who have less opportunities to student mobility | |
| Learning goal | Develop global citizenship Develop intercultural dialogue Develop communicative competence Develop technological competence Learn about other pedagogical cultures | |
| Community Partner | ENS (Benin) Department of Spanish Languages | |
| Scenario | Cyberspace. Internet (use 2.0 technologies to solve partner’s needs) | |
| Participants | 4 professors 5 students (Faculty of Education) | 1 professor 30 students (ENS) |
| Term and Year | 1st semester academic year | |
| Preparation | Designing a web site project. Explain and promote this project among the students Develop specific learning and service objectives for the students Prepare the content of the interviews | Explain and promote this project among the students Prepare the video presentations |
| Performance | Develop semi-structured interviews (1 UNED’s student with 4 / 5 ENS’s students) via Skype Solve technological problems, schedules | |
| Evaluation | Collect information and prepare field notes Analysis of results (professors) | |
| Dissemination | Certificate delivery (celebration) Preparation of reports. Video and photo for the web site. | |
Table 2
Media used by the Project participants
| Social Media | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication paths | Students | Professor | |||
| UNED 5 | ENS 30 | UNED 4 | ENS 1 | ||
| Communication | Skype | x | x | ||
| x | x | ||||
| x | x | x | |||
| Presentation | Video by smartphone | x | x | ||
| Dissemination | Web site | x | |||
Table 3
Learning goals and outcomes in vLS project
| Learning goals | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|
| Related to different educational cultures | Recognize different educational cultures Compare different educational practices |
| Related to the development of global citizenship and intercultural dialogue | Assess global citizenship Promote intercultural dialogue Differentiate different cultural practices |
| Related to the development of communicative competence | Implement the communicative competence in an intercultural scenario Demonstrate ability to dialogue |
| Related to technological competence | Implement the technological competence Solve problems arising from the failures of virtual communication |
Figure 2
A moment of interviews: Spanish student talking with Benin’s students
Figure 3
Moments of exchange during the online interviews