"Work Integrated Learning combines professional work experience with classroom studies in many forms to include: internships, study abroad, co-operative education, clinical rotations community service and student teaching" WACE. The ideals of WIL are to integrate learning in academic and work environments but there are great differences in the extent to which WIL is interpreted and implemented in both philosophical and curriculum design senses.
Some institutions e.g. Queensland University of Technology, see the idea of WIL (one which seeks to gain learning from both work/community and academic contexts) as sitting within a broader concept of a curriculum for real world learning: a view that is consistent with the University of Surrey's emergent ideas about learning for a complex world.
Please share examples of approaches to WIL
Links to institutions that take the idea of WIL seriously
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Charles Sturt University Australia
Dublin City University Ireland
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Pace University USA
Queensland University of Technology Australia
Rochester Institute of Technology USA
Simon Fraser University Canada
University of Surrey England
University of Westminster England