Work Integrated Learning - a Marriage Between Academia and Working Life

There is a demand for increased cooperation between higher education institutes and surrounding society, and different frameworks for such cooperation have been developed. University West in Sweden has a profile called work-integrated learning which could be regarded as a systematical approach for c...

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Main Author:	Martin Gellerstedt
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2015-10-01
Series:	Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Subjects:	higher education society cooperation work-integrated learning
Online Access:	http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/IP005LL15.pdf

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spelling	doaj-60ffe6e0926649b9afde920ba4f062532020-11-25T00:17:34ZengInternational Institute of Informatics and CyberneticsJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics1690-45242015-10-011363846Work Integrated Learning - a Marriage Between Academia and Working LifeMartin Gellerstedt0 There is a demand for increased cooperation between higher education institutes and surrounding society, and different frameworks for such cooperation have been developed. University West in Sweden has a profile called work-integrated learning which could be regarded as a systematical approach for combining theory and practice. Actually work-integrated learning has become an ideology for the University which permeates all activities, i.e. education, research and cooperation with surrounding society. This article is a review, explaining and exemplifying our approach. We will also discuss strategies and challenges for bringing the relationship between theory and practice into a prospering marriage.http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/IP005LL15.pdf higher educationsocietycooperationwork-integrated learning
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description	There is a demand for increased cooperation between higher education institutes and surrounding society, and different frameworks for such cooperation have been developed. University West in Sweden has a profile called work-integrated learning which could be regarded as a systematical approach for combining theory and practice. Actually work-integrated learning has become an ideology for the University which permeates all activities, i.e. education, research and cooperation with surrounding society. This article is a review, explaining and exemplifying our approach. We will also discuss strategies and challenges for bringing the relationship between theory and practice into a prospering marriage.
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Work Integrated Learning - a Marriage Between Academia and Working Life

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