A Model for Work-Based Learning

…a useful work…the authors have not only made a good case for formalising the learning aspects, but have produced a handy introduction to how this may be done.

Work-based learning, where professional work experience is closely integrated with professional studies, now forms an important component of many higher education courses, though the design, implementation, and monitoring of such learning is subject to much debate. Alderman and Milne (communication and education, U. of Canberra, Australia) offer educators a work-based learning model designed to enhance the experience through facilitated mentoring and reflective learning, based on a successful internship for an undergraduate course in library and information science used at the U. of Canberra over the past decade. In addition to the detailed discussion of the model and its components, the text features an extensive section of supplementary activities and sample documents, which educators can use during all aspects of the work experience.