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Work-based Learning
Current Practices from the UK
Frank Lyons
Director of Foundation Direct
National Teaching Fellow
University of Portsmouth
ACEN Network, Victoria University, Melbourne August 8 2006
Work-based and Placement Learning
Company Partnerships
Learning Contract managed Work-based Learning
Foundation degrees: frameworks and portfolio
Personal Development Planning
Corporate degrees
Assessing the work-based learner
QAA Precepts about work-based Learning
Quality Assured Work-based learning
Company Partnerships
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Aerospace: Lockheed Martin, Matra-Marconi.
Business: Citibank, Fluor Daniel, Zurich insurance.
Communications: ITT Cannon, Ericsson, Vodafone.
Computing: IBM, QED, Racal.
Defence: RN, Siemens, Plessy, Thales.
Service Sector: NHS, Schools, Local Government
Manufacturing: Ford, Pall Europe, Pirelli, TRW.
Partnership means engagement in the design,
delivery and review of learning
Partnership Programme: Learning Contracts
Learning Contract:
Topside redesign of HMS Illustrious
Learning
Outcomes
Project planning
Electro Magnetism & Mutual Interference
CAD
Topside design
Foundation Degree Framework
Employer involvement
Skills and Knowledge relevant to work sector
Work-based learning minimum of 25%
APEL
240 credits but articulation to Bachelors with honours
Reflective Practice
Personal Development Planning
WBL needs coordinated support for students, tutors and mentors
Portsmouth Foundation Degrees
Early Years Care & Education
Education Learning Support
Education Administration
Working with Young People
and Young People’s Services
Applied Medical Technology
Medicines Management
Medical Imaging
Oncological Therapy
Paramedic Science
Electronic Engineering
Business and Management
Construction & Enterprise
Creative Technology and Enterprise
Police Studies
Investigation and Evidence
Youth Justice
Foundation Direct
FD Professional Development
Unitin Teaching & Learning
Centre of Excellence
University Units
Benchmark
Professional Skills: WBL
& Mentor management
Progress
Review
Critical Thinking
Professional Ethics
Work
practice
WBL Project
Mentor
End
Review
Assessing WBL in
Early Years Care and Education
Curriculum
planning
and
legislation
LOutcome: Ability to know and put into practice in a designed curriculum the
relevant aspects of legislation, regulations and guidance relating to early
years curriculum provision that meets the needs of individual children.
MSc Information Operations
Information Operations and Professional Reflection
EW
Comms
Radar
& EW
Optronics
EW
Data bases
Information
Intelligence
and
Operations
Progress Report
Work-based
Project
End of degree: Reflection on Professional Practice
Tactical
Operations
Management
WBL Projects
• Multicultural welcomes (FD with Rose
Lodge nursery)
• EW Operational Support Centre (CD with
German MoD)
• Licence to service and repair aero engines
(LC with Hants & Sussex Aviation and
Pratt and Whitney)
• Biometric Identity project with
MotionTouch (FD Creative Technology and
Enterprise
Learning at Work: Learning for Profit
Assessing work-based
learning outcomes
Work –based learners:
• master lots of information
• use complicated procedures accurately
• apply difficult concepts and theories
• make fresh demands
• apply established knowledge in fresh, often-messy
settings
• radically explore
• transform old knowledge
• synthesise theory, practice and self understanding
Employers want graduates with knowledge; intellect;
willingness to learn; self management skills; communication
skills team working; interpersonal skills (Lee Harvey 1997)
Work-based (and Placement) Learning
• Explicit, planned and appropriately articulated learning
• Appropriate assessment artefacts
• Building on existing achievements and knowledge base
• Multidisciplinary and complex learning\
• Responsibilities for learning is shared and understood by
stakeholders
• Staff development
A planned period of learning, normally outside the institution at
which the student is enrolled, where the learning outcomes are an
intended part of a programme of study (QAA. 2001)
Mentor Direct
Academy
FD criteria
WBL Precepts
Flexible LOs
APEL
PDP
Sector Skills and
Industry
standards
Quality
Assured
FDs
Company and
Academy
engagement
Trained
mentor, student
and tutor
connoisseurs