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Work-based Learning Current Practices from the UK Frank Lyons Director of Foundation Direct

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

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Work-based Learning Current Practices from the UK Frank Lyons Director of Foundation Direct

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Partnership Programme: Learning Contracts

  5. Learning Contract: Topside redesign of HMS Illustrious Learning Outcomes Project planning Electro Magnetism & Mutual Interference CAD Topside design

  6. Employer involvementSkills and Knowledge relevant to work sectorWork-based learning minimum of 25%APEL240 credits but articulation to Bachelors with honoursReflective PracticePersonal Development Planning Foundation Degree Framework WBL needs coordinated support for students, tutors and mentors

  7. Early Years Care & Education Applied Medical Technology Education Learning Support Medicines ManagementEducation Administration Medical Imaging Working with Young People Oncological Therapy and Young People’s Services Paramedic ScienceElectronic Engineering Business and Management Construction & Enterprise Police Studies Creative Technology and EnterpriseInvestigation and EvidenceYouth Justice Portsmouth Foundation Degrees

  8. Foundation Direct Centre of Excellence in Teaching & Learning FD Professional Development Unit University Units Critical Thinking Professional Ethics Benchmark Professional Skills: WBL & Mentor management Progress Review End Review Work practice WBL Project Mentor

  9. Curriculum planning and legislation Assessing WBL in Early Years Care and Education 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. 

  10. MSc Information Operations

  11. 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

  12. 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)

  13. 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)

  14. Mentor Direct

  15. FD criteria Sector Skills and Industry standards Academy WBL Precepts Flexible LOs APEL PDP QualityAssuredFDs Trained mentor, student and tutor connoisseurs Company and Academy engagement

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