Conference presentation
Real World Learning For Everybody: When GPA Does Not Matter and Skills Need to be Transferable
West Australian Learning and Teaching Forum - Learning Without Limits: Educational Excellence and Equity (Edith Cowan University, 30/01/2020–31/01/2020)
31/01/2020
Abstract
One of the challenges many students face when considering the integration of real world or work-based learning in their degrees, is that work integrated learning (WIL) placements and internships often carry prerequisites requiring specific disciplinary achievement or a minimum GPA. For many students capable of thriving in the WIL context, their opportunity to do so is undercut by an academic record that excludes them. Embedded in all non-vocational degrees, Murdoch University’s Career Learning Spine (CLS) is a suite of units designed to work in complement to, but not replacement of, more traditional real world learning frameworks such as WIL placements and internships. Through the delivery of the unit MSP201 Real World Learning</em>, the CLS offers all students an opportunity to engage with workplace and professional contexts. Moreover, the offering of this unit in both standard semester-based and non-standard teaching periods, further supports students by offering greater flexibility for structuring their course of study to accommodate diverse learning and life needs. Built around principles of practice-based learning and developing ongoing reflexive praxis, Murdoch’s Real World Learning unit offers all students after their first year of study the opportunity to engage with professional environments, support local communities onshore and offshore through volunteering, undertake entrepreneurial development and competition, attend local and global conferences, engage with service learning, and partner with academics. The evidence from student reflection in formal assessment points towards real world learning as an efficacious methodology for professional and personal development; affirms that the corporeality of learning and embodied practice are pivotal to skills development; and supports all students’ opportunity and access to gain real world experience and develop preparedness for the world of work after they graduate.
Details
- Title
- Real World Learning For Everybody: When GPA Does Not Matter and Skills Need to be Transferable
- Authors/Creators
- Ellen J Greenham (PhD. FHEA) (Author)
- Conference
- West Australian Learning and Teaching Forum - Learning Without Limits: Educational Excellence and Equity (Edith Cowan University, 30/01/2020–31/01/2020)
- Identifiers
- 991005609157307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
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