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Work-integrated-learning: So what?: A framework for describing the level of integration between work and learning
Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, Avd för medier och design. (LINA)ORCID-id: 0000-0001-9129-2923
Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, Avd för informatik. (LINA)ORCID-id: 0000-0002-0575-4309
Högskolan Väst, Institutionen för ekonomi och it, Avd för informatik. (LINA)ORCID-id: 0000-0002-1908-4940
2017 (engelsk)Inngår i: ICERI2017 Proceedings, 2017, s. 443-451Konferansepaper, Publicerat paper (Fagfellevurdert)
Abstract [en]

The knowledge society of today is characterized by a continuously ongoing technological development and digitalization that steadily calls for new competencies and transforms existing professions. For being able to provide up-to-date competence in a fast-changing labor market there is, perhaps more than ever, a need for extensive cooperation between Universities and surrounding society. A number of different models supporting the civic university has been established, e.g. “entrepreneurial university”, the triple-helix model and the increasingly popular adoption of “work-integrated learning” (WIL). 

Work-integrated learning offer students authentic learning experiences and create synergy between theory and practice, e.g. by cooperative educational programs, internship, sandwich programs and case based teaching. Beyond the pedagogical benefits with experiential learning, WIL also supports the transfer between higher education and work, i.e. increases readiness, employability and also encourage a more agentic engagement. Furthermore, research results show that WIL-students have career benefits regarding salary in early career and job advancement. Even though, WIL and similar strategies for combining theory and practice seems to have promising pedagogical and career advantages, the theoretical underpinning is still underdeveloped. For instance, the methodology for how learning is promoted and which role external partners could play is vague. 

At University West with more than 25 years’ experience of WIL a holistic approach to WIL have been adopted and WIL permeates all the Universities activities: education, research and extensive collaboration with the surrounding society. Over the years our efforts have been formalized and a taxonomy for will-activities have been developed. In sum, we know that WIL have promising potential, and we know what to do. But, in a recently performed study at this University, based on focus groups interviews and consolidation of our experiences we identified that even if the question “what?” is responded to, there is an important sub-question to be addressed, namely: “so what?”. When adopting different WIL activities, both small and large scale activities, e.g. a guest lecture or an internship, it is reasonable to reflect on whether these activities are used in an optimal way? What kind of impact does the WIL-activity imply? What could be achieved by successful integration between theory and practice? Could it be visualized?

Inspired by models used for integrating technique in education (RAT, SAMR and TPCK-models), we have developed a framework for the progression of work-integrated learning in education. The framework is in a sense a model for “Wil-value”. This framework could be used on different levels and in different context: in a single course, educational program, in research projects, cooperation with surrounding society, mentorship and on partner workplaces.

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2017. s. 443-451
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ICERI Proceedings, E-ISSN 2340-1095
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WIL, work-integrated learning, digitalization, framework
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Arbetsintegrerat lärande; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP, Informatik
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-11893DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2017.0165ISI: 000429975300069ISBN: 978-84-697-6957-7 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-11893DiVA, id: diva2:1163254
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10th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, IICERI 2017, Sevilla, Spain. 16-18 November, 2017.
Tilgjengelig fra: 2017-12-06 Laget: 2017-12-06 Sist oppdatert: 2020-02-06bibliografisk kontrollert

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