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Alex Duran-Riquelme; Cherie Flores-Fernández; Judith Riquelme-Ríos – Education for Information, 2024
A professional practice is a type of internship, a practicum, that encompasses a supervised hands-on training experience for students to develop and identify the core and enabling competencies required in a professional environment. It also allows them to identify the developed and underdeveloped skills that are important in the labour environment…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Library Science, Internship Programs, Practicums
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Pamella Howell; Arun Aryal – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
Quasi-internships can have a transformative impact on information systems' capstone courses. Realizing this potential depends on pedagogical design, course delivery, and student engagement. This paper presents a teaching method based on experiential-learning pedagogical design to engage students via quasi-internships to improve career preparedness…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Capstone Experiences, Information Systems, Information Science Education
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Marquardson, Jim – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
Employers want applicants with experience, even for entry-level cybersecurity roles. Universities traditionally help students gain cybersecurity experience by hiring them for on-campus jobs or by matching job seekers to employers for off-campus work. A third option is described in this paper in which universities bring external companies on…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Security, Campuses, Computer Security
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Creel, Stacy L.; Pollicino, Elizabeth B. – Education for Information, 2012
This paper discusses the results of a study that focused on the perceived preparedness of recent graduates. Fifty-five St. John's University MLS students surveyed 348 practitioners in public libraries (181) and school libraries (167) concerning perceived preparedness of recent MLS graduates for the realities of working in libraries. The overriding…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, School Libraries, Public Libraries, Metropolitan Areas
Schambach, Thomas P.; Dirks, Jim – 2002
Internships are often omitted from or put-off until late in some students' programs of study. Some academics are reluctant to accept the academic legitimacy of applied work programs, thus cooperative education programs are not offered or encouraged in some curriculums. This study invited students finishing their internship experiences to reflect…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Cooperative Education, Higher Education, Information Science Education
Schambach, Thomas P.; Kephart, David – 1997
Internships are often put off until late in some students' programs of study. Furthermore, some academics are said to be reluctant to accept the legitimacy of applied work programs and thus cooperative education programs are not offered in some curriculums. This study invited students finishing their internship experiences to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education, Information Science Education