July 30, 2024Lining It All Up: Creating Alignment Between Learning Objectives and Assignments in Internship Courseworkby CJ Eubanks FlemingI have been partnering recently with Elon’s Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) as well as the Student Professional Development Center (SPDC) to focus on the pedagogy of internships, and specifically best practices for writing and assessing learning…
June 26, 2024Internship as Research and Research as Career Readiness: Blurring the Linesby CJ Eubanks FlemingAs I come to the close of my work as the Faculty Fellow for Internships in Elon’s College of Arts and Sciences, I am transitioning into a role in our Undergraduate Research Program. In part due to fortuitous timing in…
April 9, 2024Facilitating Integration of and Reflection on Engaged and Experiential Learningby Jessie L. MooreSince 2019, I’ve been working with my colleague Paul Miller to create an institutional toolkit for fostering both students’ self-reflection and their mentoring conversations with peers, staff, and faculty in order to deepen students’ educational experiences. Our institution, Elon University,…
March 19, 2024Tipping the Cost-Benefit Analysis to Support Faculty Engagement in Work-Integrated Learningby CJ FlemingWhen faculty consider the many ways in which they can be involved in student learning opportunities, there are a myriad of factors that affect the choices they make about how and where to engage. Work-integrated learning (WIL), which includes activities…
March 5, 2024Embracing Systematic Literature Reviews in Education Research: A Path to Rigorous Discoveryby Borghild Brekke Hauglid, Rachael Hains-Wesson, and Anne-Marie FannonIn the ever-evolving landscape of education research, the approach we take toward investigating new domains can significantly influence the outcomes and insights we garner. One such approach, which we firmly advocate for, is the systematic literature review (SLR). This method…
November 7, 2023A Global Perspective: Interning While Studying Abroad by Gianna SmurroIn my previous blog post, “Interning Abroad: Work-Integrated Learning in a Global Context,” I discussed the positive impact of having an internship while studying abroad as an undergraduate student. In this post, I would like to delve deeper into my…
October 17, 2023Identifying Factors that Influence WIL Participantsby Annelise WeaverI recently wrote a blog post highlighting the three subtopics that play a role in the overall success of a participant in an internship. In this post, I concentrated on three crucial subtopics: the type of institution, enrollment status, and…
October 10, 2023Interning Abroad: Work-Integrated Learning in a Global Contextby Gianna SmurroWork-Integrated Learning (WIL) focuses on integrating students’ course-based learning with real-world practical situations and experiences. Internships are a specific example of WIL that allow students to apply their academic studies to relevant experiences at companies, organizations, and nonprofits, small or…
August 31, 2023Lifelong Learners’ Successful Work Adjustmentby Jessie L. Moore60-Second SoTL – Episode 42 This week’s episode features an open access article from the International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning and explores how characteristics of lifelong learning inform work-integrated learning students’ work adjustment at co-op sites: Drewery, David, and Judene Pretti. 2023. “How…
August 15, 2023Integrating ePortfolios in Work-Integrated Learning Experiencesby Gianna SmurroWork-Integrated Learning (WIL) refers to the integration of practical work experiences with academic learning. Experiences falling under this umbrella provide students with opportunities to apply their knowledge to professional work environments, research, and service learning. There are many benefits of…