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Work-integrated learning (WIL) provides students with the opportunity to apply their learning from academic studies to relevant experiences and reciprocate learning back to their studies. [ 1 ] WIL is an umbrella term; [ 2 ] opportunities exist in various formats both on-campus and off-campus.
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- The opportunity to work in a genuine business setting. Getting out of the lecture hall and into a genuine workplace environment is no doubt a refreshing change for a start.
- Develop your sense and awareness of workplace culture. You may have a good idea of what the workplace is like thanks to your part-time job as a waiter/waitress at your local café or restaurant, or as a retail assistant in a clothes store.
- Enhance your soft skills and advance your theoretical knowledge. Working to learn is learning to work. Work integrated learning will allow you to gain a good grasp of basic work capabilities and a plethora of both soft and technical skills that you wouldn’t necessarily develop without working in a professional setting.
- It can help you manage your future career aspirations and decisions. One huge benefit of work integrated learning is it can help you decide what future career path you may (or may not) want to pursue after you graduate.
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Sattler (2011) identified three approaches or models for WIL: the first is what she terms systematic training, in which the workplace is “the central piece of the learning” (such as an apprenticeship); the second is structured work experience, in which students are familiarized with the world of work within a postsecondary education program (e.g., ...
Researchers have identified several theories of student learning that help explain the benefit of WIL and that also provide a framework for assessing its learning outcomes. Summarized by Sattler (2011) and Keating(2006), these include situated learning theory, action theory and boundary crossing, pedagogy of the workplace, and critical education th...
Based on a key-word search of articles published in the International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning (until 2016 titled Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education), I found that writing intersects with WIL in a couple of key ways. First, reflection is often used as a tool for students to process learning; while students can use different mo...
As an institutional practice, WIL provides an established framework grounded in learning theory to support students’ learning in and through workplace settings. The WIL scholarship has not drawn from studies of workplace writing or writing knowledge transfer that have emerged from writing studies contexts, although of course the writing studies fie...
Alanson, Erik R, and Richard A Robles. 2016. “Using Electronic Portfolios to Explore Essential Student Learning Outcomes in a Professional Development Course.” Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative E...Anson, Chris M., and L. Lee Forsberg. 1990. “Moving Beyond the Academic Community: Transitional Stages in Professional Writing.” Written Communication 7, no. 2: 200–231.Baird, Neil, and Bradley Dilger. 2017. “How Students Perceive Transitions: Dispositions And Transfer In Internships.” College Composition and Communication 68, no 4: 684-712Billett, Stephen. 2009. “Realising the Educational Worth of Integrating Work Experiences in Higher Education.” Studies in Higher Education827-843.At its core, WIL offers students authentic experiential learning opportunities that directly contribute to their personal and professional development by integrating academic studies with relevant work experiences.
THE SCIENCE OF SHAPING PATHFINDERS. At BITS Pilani WILP (Work Integrated Learning Programmes), we take pride in shaping the future of individuals. We are here to impart relevant and renewed skills that help unlock the true potential of professionals.
A model and process of curricular experiential education which formally and intentionally integrates a student’s academic studies within a workplace or practice setting. WIL experiences include an engaged partnership of at least: an academic institution, a host organization, and a student.
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is an approach to education that allows students to obtain work experiences related to what they are learning in a classroom setting (International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, n.d; Jackson 2016).
