Experiential Learning Inventory

Experiential Learning Inventory is a sleek, intunitive, and powerful web-application for tracking and approving student experiential learning activities and out-of-state learning placements in a higher-education setting. It is created and maintained by Brown Book Software (and other contributers).

Purpose

Experiential Learning Inventory helps a Univeristy track internships, practica, clinicals, field work, independent study, and other experiential learning activities campus-wide. We specifically care about:

• Where each student is located during their internship (because of State Authorization and in case of emergency)
• Who we should contact in case of emergency
• Generating and storing a valid contract for each internship, to protect all parties (Student, Hosts, and the University) in case of legal dispute.

We've realized other benefits too:

• We have great data for reporting and data mining!
• Internships tend to get approved more quickly, or we have good notes on what happened otherwise.
• Fewer students and faculty members skip steps in the approval process. We catch errors before they become problems.
• Cut costs by streamlining the approval process (less person-hours) and saving paper.

Bugs and feature requests

Have a bug or a feature request? Please first search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea has not addressed yet, please open a new issue.

Contributing

Community contributions are welcome. Please open a pull request.

By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the GNU GPL v3.

Versioning

Experiential Learning Inventory is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines. We'll adhere to these rules whenever possible.

Releases will be numbered with the format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major while resetting minor and patch
• New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor while resetting the patch
• Bug fixes and misc changes bumps only the patch

For more information on SemVer, please visit http://semver.org/.

Authors

• Jeremy Booker - http://twitter.com/jbook3r
• Jacob Pollard
• Jeff Tickle
• Robert Bost
• Micah Carter
• Eric Cambel
• Chris Detsch
• Olivia Perugini
• Mollie Gentry

Copyright and license

Copyright 2008-2018 Appalachian State University, Copyright 2018-2022 Brown Book Software. Code released under the GNU GPL v3. Docs released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).