Through our service-learning projects, SOI students use – and practise – the knowledge and skills they learn at school, such as effective customer and user communications, to address genuine community needs. 

In addition to enriching our own students’ learning experience, our service-learning projects also cater to the needs of the poor, the elderly, the handicapped, and even the environment. 

Find out more about the various service-learning projects SOI has done below!

Students from the Diploma in Business Applications (DBA) programme conducted a 3-hour workshop for the senior citizens at the Woodlands Care Corner Senior Activity Centre in September 2017. They taught elders basic mobile phone functions, like:

• How to change the language settings on their phone
• How to send an SMS
• How to install and uninstall apps on their phone
• How to change between Wi-Fi and their mobile phone operator networks

The students also taught them how to surf the Internet on their phone and use various social media apps, such as Whatsapp and Youtube, so that they can keep mentally and socially active and enrich their lives.

In addition to applying the effective user communication strategies they learned in class, DBA students also learned lessons in patience when dealing with the elderly and less tech-savvy demographics. 

On 27 May 2017, students from the Diploma in Business Applications (DBA) programme conducted an introductory social media workshop for the North West Community Development Councils (NWCDC) Brisk Walking Club. They got the chance to put into practice the user communication strategies they learned in class, when they taught senior members: 

• How to create an e-mail account
• Basic WhatsApp functions
• Basic Facebook functions
• How to hashtag and upload photographs