Work Based Learning

Codes of practice and beyond

Work based learning

• A significant change in emphasis

• Different learning teaching and assessment challenges

• Partnership management

• Off site and blended delivery

• New roles

• The future

Work based learning

• Change in emphasis

– the risk assessment

• Shared delivery

• Ownership / stakeholders

• Quality assuring the curriculum

• Mentorship and supervision

Work based learning

• Learning, teaching and assessment challenges

• Intended learning outcomes in a theory : practice paradigm

• Assessment tasks offering academic level plus relation of theory to practice

• Marking and markers• Student experience and support outside

University

Work based learning

• Partnership / stakeholder strategies

• Can include employers, PSRBs, sector skills councils and many more

• Must include regular contact and consultation

Work based learning

• Off site and blended delivery

• Access to relevant experiences within a work situation

• Co-operation between module leader and site based staff / team expansion

• Practical issues achieving complex skills within a module timescale

Work based learning

• New roles– Link roles– Mentor training– Supervisor training

Work based learning

• Future use of work based credit

• Options?

• What are your challenges? How should we proceed with mentor preparation? What would you add to the Code of Practice? Which forms of assessment work best?