Work-based Learning

Current Practices from the UK

Frank Lyons Director of Foundation Direct

National Teaching Fellow University of Portsmouth

ACEN Network, Victoria University, Melbourne August 8 2006

Work-based and Placement Learning

Company Partnerships

Learning Contract managed Work-based Learning

Foundation degrees: frameworks and portfolio

Personal Development Planning

Corporate degrees

Assessing the work-based learner

QAA Precepts about work-based Learning

Quality Assured Work-based learning

Company Partnerships

• Aerospace: Lockheed Martin, Matra-Marconi.

• Business: Citibank, Fluor Daniel, Zurich insurance.

• Communications: ITT Cannon, Ericsson, Vodafone.

• Computing: IBM, QED, Racal.

• Defence: RN, Siemens, Plessy, Thales.

• Service Sector: NHS, Schools, Local Government

• Manufacturing: Ford, Pall Europe, Pirelli, TRW.

Partnership means engagement in the design, delivery and review of learning

Partnership Programme: Learning Contracts

Learning Contract: Topside redesign of HMS Illustrious

LearningOutcomes

Project planning Electro Magnetism & Mutual Interference CAD Topside design

Employer involvement

Skills and Knowledge relevant to work sector

Work-based learning minimum of 25%

APEL

240 credits but articulation to Bachelors with honours

Reflective Practice

Personal Development Planning

Foundation Degree Framework

WBL needs coordinated support for students, tutors and mentors

Early Years Care & Education Applied Medical Technology Education Learning Support Medicines Management Education Administration Medical Imaging Working with Young People Oncological Therapy and Young People’s Services Paramedic Science Electronic Engineering Business and Management Construction & Enterprise Police Studies Creative Technology and Enterprise Investigation and Evidence Youth Justice

Portsmouth Foundation Degrees

Foundation Direct

Centre of Excellence in Teaching & Learning

 

Professional Skills: WBL & Mentor management

Benchmark Progress Review

Critical ThinkingProfessional Ethics

WBL Project

End Review

Mentor

FD Professional Development Unit

Work practice

University Units

Curriculum planning and legislation

LOutcome: Ability to know and put into practice in a designed curriculum the relevant aspects of legislation, regulations and guidance relating to early years curriculum provision that meets the needs of individual children. 

Assessing WBL in Early Years Care and Education

Work-basedProject

EW Comms

Radar

& EW

Optronics EW

Data bases

Tactical

Operations

Management

Information Operations and Professional Reflection

End of degree: Reflection on Professional Practice

InformationIntelligence

andOperations

Progress Report

MSc Information Operations

WBL Projects• Multicultural welcomes (FD with Rose Lodge

nursery)• EW Operational Support Centre (CD with

German MoD)• Licence to service and repair aero engines (LC

with Hants & Sussex Aviation and Pratt and Whitney)

• Biometric Identity project with MotionTouch (FD Creative Technology and Enterprise

Learning at Work: Learning for Profit

Assessing work-based learning outcomes

Work –based learners: • master lots of information• use complicated procedures accurately• apply difficult concepts and theories• make fresh demands• apply established knowledge in fresh, often-messy

settings• radically explore• transform old knowledge• synthesise theory, practice and self understanding Employers want graduates with knowledge; intellect;

willingness to learn; self management skills; communication skills team working; interpersonal skills (Lee Harvey 1997)

Work-based (and Placement) Learning

• Explicit, planned and appropriately articulated learning

• Appropriate assessment artefacts

• Building on existing achievements and knowledge base

• Multidisciplinary and complex learning\

• Responsibilities for learning is shared and understood by stakeholders

• Staff development  

A planned period of learning, normally outside the institution at which the student is enrolled, where the learning outcomes are an intended part of a programme of study (QAA. 2001)

Mentor Direct

QualityAssured

FDs

FD criteriaFD criteriaSector Skills and Sector Skills and

Industry Industry standardsstandards

Trained mentor, student

and tutorconnoisseursconnoisseurs

Academy Academy WBL PreceptsWBL PreceptsFlexible LOsFlexible LOs

APEL APEL PDPPDP

Company and Company and Academy Academy

engagementengagement