Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning: Volume 3 Issue 1

Preparing students to collaborate in the virtual work world

Lori K. Long, Patricia A. Meglich

The proliferation of inexpensive and accessible internet communication tools coupled with an increasingly geographically dispersed workforce has increased the use of virtual…

Educating the early career arts professional using a hybrid model of work based learning

Peter Bryant, Adesola Akinleye, Alan Durrant

Using data drawn from two cohorts of learners studying the Bachelor of Arts (Professional Practice) programme at Middlesex University, the purpose of this paper is to critically…

Creating and evaluating an online and work‐based instructional model

Jane Mardini

The purpose of this paper is to present and provide an evaluative study of a new Instructional Design Model for online and work‐based Learning.

Design of educational systems for work based learning (WBL): the learner experience

Lalith Liyanage, Rebecca Strachan, Roger Penlington, Biddy Casselden

Information and communication technologies have transformed higher education providing e‐mechanisms to support the delivery of content, communication and interaction. One example…

The use of English literature in the context of work‐based learning – a pedagogic case study

Christine A. Eastman

The purpose of this paper is to persuade curriculum developers that the aims of incorporating English literature, particularly in the concern with developing a responsive openness…

Co‐delivered work based learning: contested ownership and responsibility

Denise Meakin, Tony Wall

The purpose of this paper is to explore, from a practitioner perspective, the tensions in facilitating the “challenging and complex” terrain of co‐delivered work based learning…

2012 Awards for Excellence

Editorial

Ruth Helyer