International Service Learning provides the opportunity for a profound learning experience. Students are taken out of their comfort zones and need to confront genuine challenges.

The students were enrolled in a class where they needed to learn Macromedia Flash. The lecturer saw this as an opportunity to get the students involved in voluntary welfare organisations – and learn Flash at the same time.

Read how it was done – and the outcomes.

The problem: Final year students with too many unrelated IT projects.

The solution: Integrate the projects into a single project – and get the students to work with companies to produce a “real-world” application.