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Niman, Neil B.; Chagnon, Jennifer R. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
This book examines the tide of change facing higher education as it grapples with providing a more relevant and demonstrated value for its graduates entering the workplace. Based on their experience with the Business in Practice program they created, the authors share the rationale and practical approaches colleges and universities need to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Graduates, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
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Gerhardt, Trevor, Ed.; Annon, Paulette J., Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
It has become evident within higher education and within (or in partnership with) the workplace that there is a growing demand for an integration of learning within the workplace. Formal and intentional models and processes utilizing experiential learning methods and pedagogy are often referred to as work integrated learning. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Workplace Learning, Experiential Learning, Apprenticeships
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Billett, Stephen, Ed.; Orrell, Janice, Ed.; Jackson, Denise, Ed.; Valencia-Forrester, Faith, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2020
This edited volume offers a range of insights about, practices of, and findings associated with, enrichening higher education students' learning by their engagement in educational processes during and after the completion of their work integrated education experiences. That is, using post-practicum intervention to augment and enrich those learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Work Experience Programs, Learning Processes
Hamilton, Stephen F. – Harvard Education Press, 2020
Career pathways (CP) has gained prominence as a strategy to ensure that high school students and displaced workers acquire the college and career readiness skills needed in a fast-changing, globalized economy. In an effort to ensure future success for CP, Stephen F. Hamilton examines the School-to-Work (STW) movement of the 1980s and 1990s and…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Career Readiness, College Readiness
Zilvinskis, John, Ed.; Kinzie, Jillian, Ed.; Daday, Jerry, Ed.; O'Donnell, Ken, Ed.; Zande, Carleen Vande, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2022
Research shows that enriching learning experiences such as learning communities, service-learning, undergraduate research, internships, and senior culminating experiences -- collectively known as High-Impact Practices (HIPs) -- are positively associated with student engagement; deep, and integrated learning; and personal and educational gains for…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Equal Education, Fidelity
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Hong, Christina, Ed.; Ma, Will W. K., Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2020
This edited volume sets the stage for discussion on Education 4.0, with a focus on applied degree education and the future of work. Education 4.0 refers to the shifts in the education sector in response to Industry 4.0 where digital transformation is impacting the ways in which the world of work and our everyday lives are becoming increasingly…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Role of Education, Teacher Role, Curriculum Design
Kuczera, Malgorzata; Bastianic, Tanja; Field, Simon – OECD Publishing, 2018
One of a series of studies on vocational education and training, this review assesses the apprenticeship system and vocational education and training in Israel and provides policy recommendations. Israel has experienced strong economic growth over the last decade, and labour shortages are observed in many sectors and occupations. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Educational Change
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Barton, Georgina, Ed.; Hartwig, Kay, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2017
This book shares a range of examples where international students have undertaken a work placement, practicum, internship or participated in work integrated learning. Contributions reflect on the successes and challenges that this particularly diverse group of students experience when undertaking work placement programs in a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Work Experience Programs, Practicums, Internship Programs