This chapter describes applied work-based learning, situates participation against student employment, provides features of effective applied work-based learning experiences, examines evidence of effects, and discusses challenges to implement and sustain effective experiences.

A discussion of the issues related to the acceptability of off-campus experiential learning and suggestions for dealing with them. (Editor)

Books, monographs, articles, manuals, pamphlets, films, projects, and institutions that are helpful resources for field experience programs are listed and briefly described. (Editor/PG)

A field experience program balances great potential for learning against a major expenditure of resources and requires vision, commitment, flexibility, and persistence to implement. It enhances academic learning through use of the outside world's resources and provides a link to the world in which students prepare to live. (MSE)

The North Carolina Internship Office has an operational objective to establish a network of programs which extend opportunities for service-learning to students enrolled in the 45 senior public and private colleges in the state. (Editor)

Vigorously supports the use of field experiences as learning devices and as an alternative method of teaching and looks at the various actors in the process, focusing on the uses and misuses of the faculty supervisor. (Author/PG)

This paper examines the characteristics of student workers, the types of structures for supervising student field experience are noted, supervisory functions are suggested, and the potentials of good supervision are summarized. (Author)

How to gain approval for the establishment of a field experience program, organize it, and establish supporting relationships for it. (Editor/PG)

Justin Morrill College of Michigan State University provides a bachelor of arts degree in liberal education. The purpose of the college is to help students become effective and humane autonomous learners. (Author/PG)

The overall concerns of program design of field experience programs are dealt with, including funding, academic credit, and program administration. (Editor/PG)

Students are playing a significant role in expanding the options in field experience education, pioneering new ways of functioning--independent and self-initiating--and in creating mature relationships with faculty. (Editor)

The public health practice program at the University of South Carolina illustrates two general principles of service learning. A model program is described and its implications discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Internships for university administrators provide a method of training that maintains professional vitality, while also providing the individual with meaningful experience and preparing future leaders for the academy. The ideal internship, ACE Fellows Program, mentor relationships, and ACE Cooperative Personnel Exchange are mentioned, and a…