Involve your students,
serve as a facilitor & conduct research

Our goal is to closely align our professional development courses and service-learning projects with the academic and experiential learning needs of our participants. To that end, we work with professors and other student advisors as partners to find ways to incorporate our service-learning opportunities with course, internship, research, or practicum requirements. If you are a college or university faculty member and would like to involve your students within our courses or projects, serve as a project facilitator, or conduct research with us, please contact us.|

The Process for Faculty

Designers for Learning seeks to involve both expert and novice designers in service-learning projects aimed at supporting mission-driven organizations. Since 2014, over 4,000 people have enrolled in our service-learning courses or projects to gain instructional design experience and develop free educational resources for underserved needs. When a new course or project is implemented, a Call for Volunteers describing the nature of the project is posted on our website. In addition, a copy of the call is emailed to the over 5,500 people who have expressed interest in participating with us. We encourage faculty to join our projects as facilitators and researchers, and to refer qualified students as participants. In addition, depending on your school’s requirements, some students might be able to use the service-learning experience to fulfill an internship, research, or practicum requirements.