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Publication Date: 2020
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An Institutional Framework for Scaffolding Work-Integrated Learning across a Degree
Dean, Bonnie; Yanamandram, Venkata; Eady, Michelle J.; Moroney, Tracey; O'Donnell, Nuala; Glover-Chambers, Tracey
Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, v17 n4 Article 6 2020
Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) is an important pedagogical strategy for developing employability skills by immersing students in real-world understandings, applications and practices. Increasingly, universities are focusing on how WIL can be scaffolded across a degree, to involve students in a variety of WIL activities in order to apply disciplinary knowledge and skills. While placement models appear to be the dominant mode of WIL that are easily recognised within a degree structure, non-placement forms of WIL while emerging, remain less visible. This conceptual paper presents an institutional framework that accounts for a range of placement and non-placement WIL activities, to make WIL practices overt across a degree. It introduces the Work-Integrated Learning Curriculum Classification (WILCC) Framework that supports a university-wide approach for developing, mapping and reporting WIL. The WILCC Framework promotes the visibility of WIL across the institution, offers a common language for WIL across disciplines, and provides a tool to scaffold WIL experiences throughout degree programs.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Job Skills, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs, Learning Activities, Student Placement, College Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Classification, Extracurricular Activities, Career Development, Feedback (Response), Reflection
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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