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ePortfolios encourage learners to reflect on and synthesize their learning experiences and provide a platform for sharing that information easily with authentic audiences. As such an ePortfolio showcases the user's unique identity, offering both a pedagogical tool for archiving and reflection and a professional tool for showcasing marketable skills.

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Learning Communities are groups of students who connect what they are learning with what they want to do: their majors, career choices, and/or their hopes for a better world. Learning Community students take one or more courses together and are open to students living on- or off- campus.
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LeADERS

LeADERS is a new experience for ODU undergraduate that prepares them for careers, graduate school, and life-long learning through hands-on learning experiences.
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TRiO Programs

TRIO Programs exist to encourage and assist people who are traditionally under-resourced and under-represented in post-secondary education including first generation college students, students from limited income families, and/or students with disabilities. TRIO Programs provide the personal attention, planning and knowledge that help to prepare students for entry to, and completion of college.
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Office of Academic Innovation & Learning Support

Student Success Center (2nd floor)
Norfolk, VA, 23529
(757) 683-3699 Front Desk
academicsuccess@odu.edu
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Academic Success Initiatives & High Impact Practices Across Campus:

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Undergraduate Research

The Undergraduate Research Program is an initiative of the Office of Academic Affairs and the Perry Honors College designed to promote, support and fund the involvement of undergraduate students in the active research community at Old Dominion University.

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Service-Learning & Civic Engagement

The Center for Service & Civic Engagement is your one stop shop for all things related to service, service-learning, and civic engagement!

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Brooks Crossing Innovation Lab

Brooks Crossing Innovation Lab (iLab) is an instructional hub for STEM learning driven by team building and collaboration allowing opportunities for students and people of all ages, abilities, and disciplines to learn by designing creative solutions to real-world problems. 

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Living-Learning Communities

Housing & Residence Life and our academic and campus partners strive to provide a learner-centered environment conducive to the academic growth and personal success of our students through an intentional Theme & Living-Learning Community program.

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Internships & Cooperative Education

Internships are an agreement between you, the employer, and the University. It's a one-time paid or unpaid work experience that provides exciting real-world experiences and supportive mentorships.

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