60-Second SoTL – Episode 79

What factors inform faculty engagement in work-integrated learning (WIL) activities like internships, co-ops, and field placements? This episode showcases an open-access article on factors that inform faculty engagement with WIL. The article is part of a special section, published in Teaching & Learning Inquiry in March, featuring multi-institutional SoTL from the Center’s 2022-2024 research seminar on WIL.

Eubanks Fleming, CJ, Letitia Henville, Catherine Wilson, Kristin Geraty, and Denyse Lafrance Horning. 2026. “Faculty Willingness and Ability to Engage with Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): Piloting the Faculty Engagement Model in the WIL Sphere.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 14: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.14.14

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Show Credits

This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric.

60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

Music: “Cryptic” by AudioCoffee.

Image in episode art by lookstudio on Freepik.

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