The Impact of Service-Learning on Improving Students’ Teacher Training: Testing the Efficiency of a Tutoring Program in Increasing Future Teachers’ Civic Attitudes, Skills and Self-Efficacy

Service-Learning is becoming a powerful educational tool that helps students emerge from the theoretical world to the world of practice by linking community-service with academic content through learning objectives. This paper investigates the impact Service-Learning on improving students’ teacher training by testing the efficiency of an online tutoring Service-Learning program (i.e. E-S-L) and the functionality of the educational platform hosting the program, entitled PedTut. The present paper also serves as a contribution to the discussion of integrating educational platforms in the service process by limiting time and space boundaries and making it accessible for students to put their knowledge into practice for the benefit of the community.