60-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 Approaches to Learning Explain Lifelong Learners’ Successful Work Adjustment.” International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning 24 (3): 359-370.

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This episode was hosted 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.

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