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Kristin Bracewell; Irene Sheridan; Stephen Cassidy – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2024
Work-integrated learning (WIL) has been suggested as a potentially beneficial addition to modern doctoral education. However, there is little research outlining the specificities of WIL aimed at PhD students. This paper explores the range of WIL opportunities available to PhD students through a review of secondary data. The findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Doctoral Students, Experiential Learning, Doctoral Programs
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Quinn, Diana; Cioffi, Edward; Hill, Steve; Kor, Mat; Longford, Anna-Clare; Moller, Robert; Rathore, Pramila – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
Implementing online learning can pose serious pedagogical challenges particularly when programs contain work-integrated learning (WIL) components. One such component is the site visit, where student groups are led by subject matter experts through an authentic environment. These WIL experiences help students relate the theory learnt in classrooms…
Descriptors: Construction Management, Online Courses, Workplace Learning, Program Implementation
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Ibrahim, Zuraeda; Ishak, Nur Ashikin; Baharum, Zafiruddin; Ghazali, Noorlaila; Aziz, Rozainum Hj AB. – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
Malaysian Institutions of Higher Learning (IHLs) are expected to provide effective and innovative teaching and learning practices. Academics are to be of high quality and equipped with vital knowledge and skills to assist the IHLs in producing holistic and work-ready graduates. In order to meet these expectations, the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning
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Sambell, Ros; Devine, Amanda; Lo, Johnny; Lawlis, Tanya – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
Enterprising students who understand the work environment are considered more employable. It is accepted that higher-education has a responsibility to produce career-ready-graduates. Practicum experience provides a critical role in this preparation. This study describes the development and implementation of the WIL instrument and WIL experience to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Work Experience, Practicums, Program Development
Sevak, Purvi; Feeney, Kathleen; Honeycutt, Todd; Peterson, Emily – Mathematica, 2021
The Linking Learning to Careers (LLC) program offered high school students with disabilities an individualized and targeted approach to strategically plan for their futures. The Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) designed LLC to build on its usual services for high school students to emphasize unpaid and paid work-based learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
Plumlee, Tucker; Klein-Collins, Rebecca – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2017
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor invited postsecondary institutions to participate in an experiment to learn how federal financial aid might be used to cover the costs of prior learning assessment (PLA). PLA is the process of evaluating a student's prior workplace and experiential learning for academic credit. While the experiment is still…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Success, Federal Aid, Experiential Learning
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Michigan Vocational Education Resource Center. – 1987
This handbook is intended as a resource for individuals involved in the development, operation, and expansion of school store laboratories. The first of three sections covers facility/laboratory planning. It includes detailed guidelines for establishing a new school store operation and remodeling or relocating an existing operation. Section II…
Descriptors: Distributive Education, Experiential Learning, Job Skills, Laboratories
Sansregret, Marthe – 1985
This guide is designed for administrators of universities, colleges, school boards, and private institutions who wish to consider the implementation of a program for the recognition of prior learning within their institutions. To explain the possibility of transferring learning skills, some examples of the recognition of prior learning are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Credits, Experiential Learning
Bragg, Debra D.; And Others – 1995
A study of the status of work-based learning in U.S. two-year colleges sought to determine the aggregate depth, scope, and quality of work-based learning. A census design was used to ascertain the scope of work-based learning, through a mailed survey of 1,036 U.S. two-year colleges (nearly 50 percent response rate). Results of the study indicate…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Experiential Learning
Metzger, Rebecca Griffeth – 1991
The StudyWorks Project was a 1-year unit of study designed for implementation with gifted/talented (G/T) students and developmentally handicapped (DH) students. The project involved four major areas of study (economic development, career education, social/interpersonal skills, and health/nutrition) and provided practical application of these areas…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum, Economic Development, Elementary Education
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Standards Branch. – 1995
Off-campus education is an experiential method of learning that integrates a student's classroom studies with on-the-job experiences obtained at an employing organization. Off-campus education programs are based on a partnership among the school, the parents, the student, and the employing organization, with each of the partners sharing the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Innovation, Educational Methods
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
This bulletin focuses on the requirement of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 that school-to-work initiatives engage representatives of organized labor in the development, implementation, and governance of a school-to-work system. The first section outlines what organized labor brings to the school-to-work initiative. The next section…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Integrated Curriculum
Farrar, Eleanor; And Others – 1980
This document reports Huron Institute's three-year implementation study (1976-80) of Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE), a high school school-and-work program developed by four regional education laboratories. Two major questions addressed by the study are: How effectively has EBCE been implemented? and What explains the differences in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1981
This teacher-coordinator manual assists in planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating student learning experiences associated with either a model store, school store, or combination. (A model store in a marketing laboratory simulates marketing functions; the school store markets merchandise to fellow students, faculty, and/or the public.)…
Descriptors: Advertising, Career Exploration, Distributive Education, Experiential Learning
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1996
Contextual learning--also known as "learning by doing, experiential learning, real-world education, or active learning"--has long been advocated for students. In practice, however, schools often offer the opposite: individual learning, independent of tools, dependent upon symbols, and theoretical. Today the school-to-work movement has…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Resources, Educational Strategies
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