Ruth Helyer

Facilitating Work-Based Learning

A Handbook for Tutors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Work-based learning routes are a versatile and innovative way to gain higher education qualifications. This book reflects that flexibility and prepares tutors for helping work-based students learn in a variety of ways at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Offering practical information and advice, the book covers the major aspects of work-based learning, which include: - Accreditation of prior learning (APL) - Work-based projects - Learning agreements - Relevant innovative assessment methods - Quality assurance and enhancement mechanisms - How technology can be utilised as a learning tool. Featuring activities, case studies and useful hints and tips informed by a range of international scholars, it's the ideal companion for tutors of work-based learning students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education / Red Globe Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781137403247
• ISBN-10: 1137403241
• Artikelnr.: 43917132

Autorenporträt

Ruth Helyer

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Key subjects and words
1. How does Work-Based Learning fit into Higher Education?
2. Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Work-based learning
3. Flexible Frameworks and Building Blocks
4. Negotiation and Work-based Learning
5. Recognising and accrediting prior experiential learning
6. Turning practitioners in practitioner-researchers
7. Supporting Work-based learners
8. Quality enhancement and work-based learning
9. Using social media to enhance work-based learning
10. Learning in the workplace globally
11. Learning to learn
12. A transcultural dance: enriching work-based learning facilitation
13. Promoting learning through work-based experience: mimetic learning in
action
Appendix 1: Ethics and the work-based learner
Appendix 2: Some research terms
Bibliography
Index.