[TOS] Learning Through Service workshops

[Mel Chua]

I'm passing this along for two reasons:

1) Some of you might be interested in such a workshop, particularly if 
you're doing HFOSS type stuff already.

2) It is absolutely fascinating to compare their approach -- email 
style, wording, tone, website, program structure (as described by the 
website), participation requirements, and so forth... to what we've got 
for POSSE.

That is all.

--Mel

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We continue to invite applications to attend one of three 2012 workshops 
focused on Learning Through Service (LTS) – a term used for various 
educational efforts that engage communities; whether the effort is 
curricular or extracurricular, or the community is local or global. 
These FREE workshops, entitled “Engineering Learning Through Service” 
actively engage engineering faculty on the design, management, and 
assessment of LTS in engineering education.  The workshops will bring 
together engineering faculty interested in, or those newly engaged with, 
LTS and will be lead by faculty experienced in the various methods LTS 
has been implemented in engineering programs.  These workshops are part 
of a multi-institutional, NSF-funded research effort entitled 
Engineering Faculty Engagement in Learning Through Service (EFELTS).  It 
is EFELTS goal to help build sustainable LTS efforts in engineering, and 
a primary aim of these workshops is to continually engage workshop 
attendees in various post-workshop events and activities to help foster 
and grow an LTS community-of-practice.

All aspiring workshop participants must apply and can attend only one of 
three workshops; scheduled for June 21-22, in Massachusetts, August 2-3 
in Michigan, or September 14-15, 2012 in Colorado.  Applications must 
include a proposed LTS effort and a support letter from the applicant’s 
department chair or program director.

A website detailing the workshops, the application process, as well as 
the overall EFELTS effort, is located here

http://sites.tufts.edu/efeltsworkshops/

All applications are due by FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012.

Review of applications will begin in March and accepted participants 
will be notified as to which workshop date and location they have been 
accepted to by early April 2012.

We are excited about this opportunity to engage engineering faculty in 
LTS implementation and look forward to working with many engineering 
faculty in the months ahead.  Please forward this to any another 
engineering faculty you know who may be interested in LTS.  For any 
specific questions about the workshops, please send inquiries to me at 
chris.swan at tufts.edu.