ENGAGING INDUSTRY: EMBEDDING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING IN THE BUSINESS CURRICULUM.
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Transcript of ENGAGING INDUSTRY: EMBEDDING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING IN THE BUSINESS CURRICULUM.
ENGAGING INDUSTRY: EMBEDDING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING IN THE BUSINESS CURRICULUM
Overview• Project background• Project objectives• Methodology• Defining Professional Learning (PL)• PL Typology• Characteristics of PL• Good practice principles• Impediments and enablers to PL• Industry engagement• Test Drive eManual
BACKGROUND
• ALTC Discipline Scoping Study: Business as Usual?
• Recommended 3 Priority projects• Engaging Industry in PL• Generic skills• Valuing and Rewarding Teaching
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• O1: Current Practice Scoping • Output: framework for categorising PL in business
• O2: Identify good practice principles• Output: good practice guide
• O3: Development of Resources & Cases• Output: Illustrative case study for each PL category • Industry engagement strategies• Web resources – eManual
METHODOLOGY
• Case study approach• Pro forma – distribution via the AD T&L Network• Individual targeting
• Focus groups• What PL means to you• Motivation for PL• Approached to Industry Engagement• Enablers & Impediments
• Desktop Audit • Institutional Policy and Context
ENGAGING INDUSTRY
• How and at what stage does industry & the professions engage with the business curriculum?
• Development• Delivery• Evaluation
• ‘Interconnectedness is a key to competitive advantage in a knowledge-based economy because effective partnerships enable faster rates of learning and diffusion of information and knowledge’ (US Council on Competitiveness)
Describing Professional Learning
Incorporates a range of teaching and learning activities that integrates theoretical and discipline-specific knowledge with the development of skills, qualities and attributes to facilitate the development of professional capability
Motivations for PL
• Apply discipline knowledge and skills to practical business problems
• Provide a real-world context to theoretical concepts and models
• Develop graduate capabilities • Ensure the currency of the business curriculum • Adopt learner-centred pedagogy that better engages and
motivates students• Provide an effective transition and pathway to a professional
career • Engage industry
TYPES OF PL
• Industry Case Study • Industry Simulations • Industry Practitioner Delivery• Industry Mentoring • Industry Study Tour • Industry Placement • Industry Competition • Industry Project
PL Characteristics & Good Practice Principles
• Industry-referencedexplicitly linked to industry or professional bodies
• Curriculum currencyaddresses up to date issues and industry practice
• Integrated curriculumdevelops professional capability through linking practice
with theory• Self-directed learning
fosters reflective practice and lifelong learning
IMPEDIMENTS AND ENABLERS
• Institutional Context• Industry Engagement• Resources• Time • Learning culture• Learning spaces• Expectations • Recognition and reward• Curriculum• Assessment• Offshore equivalence• Evaluation• Capability• ICT• Accreditation• Geography
Multiple levels of engagement with industry
• Program advisory committees• Accreditation - development• Workplace tours• Guest lectures - delivery• Modeling industry behaviour and practice - e.g. mentoring,
simulations• Hosting experiential learning• Source of projects• Client for projects or novice consultants• Providing resources or sponsorship• Assessment• Assurance of learning
Knowledge Integration Community (KIC) model atthe Cambridge-MIT Institute
A model of industry engagement
Allen and Williams (2005) identify five levels:
• Strategic alliance• Partnership• Formal• Ad-hoc• Awareness