Book chapter
Benefits of work-integrated learning for educational institutions
The Routledge International Handbook of Work-Integrated Learning, pp 131-144
01 Jan 2023
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Abstract
A higher education institution (HEI) derives significant benefits from programs of work-integrated learning or Co-operative education. The authors focus here on four benefits that are most salient: (1) enhanced reputation from employability of graduates that derives from the three-way collaboration between the HEI, industry, and the student; (2) enhanced student satisfaction that derives from their active contributions to the workplace and the resultant learning maturity and identity development they experience; (3) enhanced curriculum relevance that derives from HEIs’ collaboration with industry; and (4) enhanced HEI opportunity and potential support for research and development and meaningful corporate and community engagement. The authors discuss these four benefits through the lens of combined experience and infuse the discussion with the recent dramatic effects of the COVID-19 global pandemic on driving virtual or remote learning and work under the belief that many of these changes will persist long into the future.
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- Title
- Benefits of work-integrated learning for educational institutions
- Creators
- Kerry Aprile - Central Queensland UniversityIan Sladen - Drexel University, Bennett S. LeBow College of BusinessJames Stellar - Queens College, CUNY
- Publication Details
- The Routledge International Handbook of Work-Integrated Learning, pp 131-144
- Series
- Routledge International Handbooks of Education
- Publisher
- Routledge; ABINGDON
- Edition
- 3rd
- Number of pages
- 14
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Bennett S. LeBow College of Business
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001163540000010
- Other Identifier
- 991021863005804721
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