WACE Asia Pacific Conference 2008
‘Work Integrated Learning (WIL): Transforming Futures… Practice … Pedagogy … Partnerships’
Hosted by the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN)
30 September — 3 October 2008
Manly Pacific Hotel, Sydney Australia
Table of Contents
These paper titles have been listed in alphabetical order of the surname of the first author.
Is creativity lost in translation? : the importance of creativity in
challenging work placement experiences
Peter Alcott
Examining fitness for purpose of undergraduate curricula in preparing
students for work-integrated learning placements
John Baxter, Penny Burden
Redefining doctoral programmes as work-integrated learning experiences
John Baxter, Penny Burden
Beam Me Up Scotty: online graduate co-op and professional development
through simulation
Kristen Betts
Realising the educational worth of integrating work experiences in higher
education
Stephen Billett
Work Integrated Learning Quality Partnerships: The case of the Central
University of Technology, Free State
Getrude Bohloko, Sechaba Mahlomaholo
Putting WIL on the (round) table: Developing policy and practice at
UTAS
Natalie Brown
The Clinical Communication Program: An innovation in clinical learning
for nursing students
Didy Button, Moira Kelton, Karen Wotton, Sarah Gigger
Learning in early-career police: coming into the workplace
Matthew Campbell
Practice based learning: exploring current models used for real world
learning at a “dual sector tertiary institution”
James Cannan
I see …I hear… I do … and I understand: building competence,
confidence and pedagogical capacity through collaborative partnership
Coral Cara
Minding the gap between Japanese cooperative education and internships
abroad – the value of cooperative project based learning
Paul Churton, Yasushi Tanaka
Putting the ‘integrated’ in work-integrated learning
Richard K. Coll, Chris Eames, Levinia Paku, Mark Lay, Diana Ayling, Dave
Hodges, Shiu Ram, Ravi Bhat, Jenny Fleming, Lesley Ferkins, Cindy
Wiersma, Andrew Martin
Work, education and knowledge: a case study of educational partnerships
and pathways
Stephen Crump
Factors associated with learning outcomes from cooperative education in
environmental science
Murray Cullen
Measuring student reflection during engineering internships
Susan Doel
Career placement program: a journey from an “empty” to a “full”resume
Angela Dressler
Using research into how professionals learn at work for enhancing
placement learning
Michael Eraut
Bridging the gap: competencies students should focus on during their
cooperative experience to enhance employability
Jenny Fleming, Caryn Zinn, Lesley Ferkins
A pedagogical model of higher education/industry engagement for
enhancing employability and professional practice
Jill Franz
It’s all about ‘I’: Implementing ‘integration’ into a WIL program
Brett Freudenberg, Mark Brimble and Craig Cameron
Work-integrated learning and international students: the value of
experience
Natalie Gamble, Carol-joy Patrick, Chen Fong
Academic practice: conceptualising professional development for
pedagological innovation
Rhonda Hallett
Building innovative partnerships for work integrated learning:
observations from a community services initiative
Lisa Harris, Martyn Jones, Sally Coutts, Sue Grigg
Enhancing student engagement with industry: a curriculum approach to
scaffolding employability skills
Fiona Henderson, Alan McWilliams
Growing work-integrated learning programmes in a New Zealand
educational institution: the influence of faculty views
Dave Hodges
Building innovative partnerships develops future leaders in healthcare
Kathryn Hogan, Ian Macdonald, Alison Sheridan, Kerrie Field
From WIL to WOW – transforming Work Integrated Learning into a
skill orientated World of Work
Natasja Holtzhausen
The CQU Diploma of Professional Practice – Explicitly preparing WIL
students
Prue Howard, Ian Devenish
Creativity-based intellectual property education project at Miyagi
National College of Technology part 2 ongoing activities
Masahiko Itoh, Yasuo Utsumi, Hiroshi Sakuraba, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Kazuya
Konno, Tomoaki Endo, Keunyoung Pak
Learning for a complex world: a life-wide curriculum
Norman Jackson, Sarah Campbell
Occupational identity of police recruits
Christine Jennett, Rabiul Islam, David Bull, Rosemary Woolston
Academic standards for work integrated learning: a case study from
urban and regional planning
Martyn Jones, John Jackson, Matthew Coote, Eddie Coiacetto, Wendy Steele,
Sarah Gall, Trevor Budge
Evaluating a multi-disciplinary virtual WIL project
Sandra Jones, Martyn Jones, Benno Engels, Alan Montague, Saman De Silva,
Graham Crist
Educational challenges and impacts of sporting co-operative education
program
Masashi Kawanishi, Tatsuho Iwaki, Takahiro Kitamura, Yumiko Hagi
What coaching tells us about clinical learning
Moira Kelton
The importance of ‘industrial strength’ project management
documentation for final year computing students
Kathleen Keogh, Anne Venables
Challenges of incorporating LIWC (learning in the workplace and
community) in mathematics units of study
Lutfar R. Khan
OPUS online enhances work integrated learning – the students’ views
Ronald Laird, C R Turner
Workplace learning: creating balance between experiential learning and
commercial outcomes
Geoffrey Lee, Robyn McGuiggan, Barbara Holland
Defining a university: A community of teachers and students… in the
community
Peodair Leihy, Gina Hurley
The South African higher education qualifications framework and work
integrated learning: kill or keep? A town and regional planning
perspective
Martin Lewis, Susanne Taylor
Integrating work-ready learning into the university curriculum
contextualised by profession
Andrew Litchfield, Skye Nettleton, Tracy Taylor
Learning the rhetoric of professional practice
Stephen Loftus, Joy Higgs
Engineering admissions criteria: focusing on ultimate professional success
David Lowe, Archie Johnston
Building innovative partnerships for work integrated learning:
observations from a community services initiative
Ian Macdonald, Alison Sheridan, Kerrie Fields, Kathryn Hogan
Academic rigour versus social relevance: which way should the pendulum
swing with regard to experiential learning and community service
learning?
Sechaba Mahlomaholo, Getrude Bohloko
The role valorisation of students in the workplace: the transformative
impact of workplace-embedded speech pathology student units on the core
business of both partner agencies and the university program
Paul McCormack, Stacie Attrill, Christine Brebner , Nicola Fanning, Sue
Horton, Jo Bakewell, Ann Walter, Dianna Bleby
Preparing students for professional practice: strategies for evaluating
work integrated learning within an industry-professional context
Rod McCulloch
Exploring the practice–pedagogy middle ground: progress report on a
hermeneutic inquiry into education for practice
Anthony McKenzie, Joy Higgs, Debbie Horsfall
The challenge of assessing student capabilities in legal internships
Judith McNamara
Information Technology (IT) for settlement: the development of a
community-based learning component for an undergraduate computing
unit
Iwona Miliszewska
Employers’ perspectives on work-integrated learning in projectbased
workplaces
Anthony Mills, Patricia McLaughlin, Kathryn Robson
Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the South African Navy – a
skills developement offensive
Gordon Morris
Internship program – old practice in a new domain
Kon Mouzakis
Technology as a teaching/learning strategy for workplace experience in
nursing: complementary or contradictory perspectives?
Robyn Nash
Clash of cuisines or thriving canteen? A case of a community enterprise
providing a site for Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
Frances Newell
Barriers to skills transference: the challenges in health professional
education
Jennifer Newton, Brian Jolly, Cherene Kelly, Stephen Billett
Workplace learning, supervision and pedagogy
Carolyn Noble
Key employability skills in civil & mechanical engineering: student
perceptions vs. employer realities
Patricia Overmeyer, Gordon Morris
Reflective learning of cooperative education students
Levinia Paku, Mark Lay
Transferring learnt knowledge to practice: an example from the health
promotion field
Rebecca Patrick, Jan Moore
Experimenting with new approaches to work-integrated learning with
international students in engineering
Diana Quinn, Federick Stokes-Thompson, Helen Johnston, Lee Luong
The future of work integrated learning in South Africa
Ferie Samadi
Show Me the Way: teaching design research integrated with professional
practice
Kaye Shumack
Community based problems in 2nd year electrical engineering courses
Alec Simcock, Juan Shi, Richard Thorn
Linking work and learning: pedagogical implications
Heather Smigiel, Ceri MacLeod
Implementation of the learning in the workplace and community (LiWC)
policy in an undergraduate computing course: the pros and cons of three
possible approaches
Grace Tan
The workplace as a site for learning: challenges and possibilities
Mark Tennant, Cathi McMullen
Developing a fieldwork education discourse at university level
Franziska Trede, Joy Higgs
A win all situation for applied learning made meaningful and realistic in
the final year undergraduate strategic marketing course
Arti Triveni
Police managers’ views about their university education and professional
status
Delaine Trofymowych
Work-integrated practicum for human service professionals
Cecilia Sai Ling Tsang, Amy Po Ying Ho
Community-engaged research in economics: pedagogical implications for
Honours theses
Roberto Urzua, Ingrid Schraner
The project to cultivate the leader of a small group by PBL system
Yasuo Utsumi, Akira Shoji, Naohiro Yonamine, Toru Yoshida
Service Learning @ Hospitality Management Phase 11
Peter Van der Westhuizen
Graduate employability – embedding career management skills in
curriculum
Dale Wache, Tony McAvaney
Making connections: the complementary roles of academic and clinician
in nursing education
Frances Ward, Anne Sisam
Placement podcasts – project update including the employer’s perspective
Lisa Ward, Jane Gaffikin
Connecting the KIIP with Japanese university students
Masatoshi Watanabe
An ethnography of mentoring practice in partnership with YAA mentees
Genevieve Watson
Will or won’t WIL survive in South Africa’s new higher education
qualifications framework?
ML Wessels, Adv OM Khan, Susanne Taylor
Effective transfer of skills and knowledge to the workplace – how are we
doing so far?
Malcolm Wieck
Assessment of architectural work experience by employers and students
Brian John (Jack) Williamson
Student feedback on their professional experience: from quality assurance
to critical reflection
Jenny Willis
Why do some students opt out of professional training?
Jenny Willis
A blogging good time – the use of blogs as a reflective learning and
feedback tool for final year public relations students
Katharina Wolf
A glimpse of the real world: an investigation into the perceived
effectiveness of compulsory public relations internships from an industry
and student perspective
Katharina Wolf
In the real world: creating client-centred learning experiences for final
year public relations students
Katharina Wolf