Work-based Learning: A New Higher Education?

By Sandra Kerka. 2002

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From project supervision to advising: new conceptions of the practice (2007, background): “The practicebased imperatives of WBL are also embraced by moves to widen participation in higher education and in particular a movement to focus learning in the ‘real-world’ projects of individuals and groups doing ‘real-time’ work, paid or unpaid (Boud & Solomon, 2001).”
Instructional-Design Theories and Models: Building a Common Knowledge Base. Volume III. (2009, background): “Where workbased learning is concerned, there is a shift in the role of the university instructor from that of expert in a discipline to that of facilitator, a shift in identity that is difficult but necessary where experiential instruction is concerned (Boud & Solomon, 2001).”
Factors promoting vocational students’ learning at work: study on student experiences (2014, background): “Some researchers have suggested that the connection between theory and practice should be written into curricula (Guile and Griffiths 2001; see also Boud 2001; Fuller and Unwin 1998; Young 1998).”