Analytic Quality Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Home
Citation reference: Harvey, L., 2004-24, Analytic Quality Glossary, Quality Research International, http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/
This is a dynamic glossary and the author would welcome any e-mail suggestions for additions or amendments.
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Work-based learning
Work-based learning refers to any formal higher education learning that is based wholly or predominantly in a work setting.
Work-based learning is one form of work experience. Work-based learning is sometimes used to mean all types of work experience and often overlaps, in practical use, with the term work-related learning.
Council on Higher Education, Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) (2004, p. 29) defines work-based learning in a broad way that is closer to work-related learning.
Work-based learning : A component of a learning programme that focuses on the application of theory in an authentic, work-based context. It addresses specific competences identified for the acquisition of a qualification, which relate to the development of skills that will make the learner employable and will assist in developing his/her personal skills. Employer and professional bodies are involved in the assessment of experiential learning, together with academic staff.
The Data Service (2008) defines work-based learning as follows:
Work Based Learning generally describes learning while a person is employed. The learning is usually based on the needs of the individual's career and employer, and can lead to nationally recognised qualifications.
Bragg
Work-based learning means instructional programs that deliberately use the workplace as a site for student learning. Work-based learning programs are formal, structured, and strategically organized by instructional staff, employers, and sometimes other groups to link learning in the workplace to students' college-based learning experiences. Work-based learning programs have formal instructional plans that directly relate students' worksite learning activities to their career goals. These experiences are usually but not always college-credit generating.
Bragg, D., undated,Work-Based Learning in Two-Year Colleges: An American Tradition: Work in Progress at the University of Illinois available at http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/CW63/WorkBasedLearning.html, accessed 10 September 2012, page not available 12 January 2017.
Council on Higher Education, Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC), 2004, Criteria for Institutional Audits, April (Pretoria, Council on Higher Education).