Service-learning (S) is a course-based experiential learning strategy that engages students in meaningful service with a community partner while employing ongoing reflection to connect the service to course content. It is characterized by the purposeful integration of the service experience into the course and it entails collaboratively designing a service project with a community partner, selecting course content and assignments that inform the service, and facilitating ongoing reflection that prompts students to make meaning of the service experience in light of the course learning.
Experiential Learning (X) is a course that includes engaged learning where students learn by doing and learn through their reflection on doing.