Working and learning

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you so much for your help with this project. We're attempting to understand how institutions support teaching and learning (T&L) during work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences and how institutions support teaching and learning (T&L) as part of work-integrated learning (WIL) programs. Please read this consent document to learn about your rights and responsibilities if you choose to participate in the project.

For the purposes of this survey, we define T&L as a knowledge-center for evidence-based teaching practices that enhance student learning. T&L personnel are primarily charged with enhancing the teaching skills of faculty; examples include offering faculty workshops on specific teaching strategies for effective online and in-person courses; helping faculty to link curricula with assessment; working individually and collectively with faculty on specific areas (e.g., reflective practice, assessment practices, etc.) where they need support.

Also for this survey, we define WIL as an educational approach that uses relevant work-based experiences to integrate meaningful, work-based, experiential learning with academic curricula. WIL personnel are primarily charged with implementing and supporting this educational approach.

All responses are completely voluntary and no names of people or institutions will be released. Data will be analyzed at the aggregate level only.

Our research goal is to analyze the structure of how teaching and learning (T&L) is integrated with work-integrated learning (WIL) in order to discover both impediments and best practices to learning across the curriculum. We realize that institutions have various degrees of structural centrality for both T&L and WIL programs; for this reason, we simply refer to each as a "program," realizing that for some this may be a focused center and for others this may be a largely decentralized structure.

This work is a collaboration between researchers at Drexel University and the University of Waterloo. Please contact Karen Nulton (ksn27@drexel.edu) or Johanna Inman (jei26@drexel.edu) at Drexel or Judene Pretti (judene.pretti@uwaterloo.ca ) at Waterloo if you would like more information.

We thank you in advance for your willingness to share your time and expertise.

Karen Nulton, Drexel University

Johanna Inman, Drexel University

Judene Pretti, University of Waterloo

Please briefly describe your institution type.

Large Research institution
Medium or small Research institution
Large technical or professional institution
Medium or small technical or professional institution
Large Liberal Arts Institution
Medium or Small Liberal Arts Institution

Please describe your institution's location.

If you are willing, please provide the name of your institution.

Is your institutional role focused more on supporting faculty to teach (T&L) or on supporting WIL experiences?

T&L
WIL

How often does the WIL program collaborate with the T&L program around facilitating student learning at your institution?

Very often
Often
Occasionally
Very seldom or never

Apologies for an early free-response question, but we realized that only your words can tell your story.

Please describe how WIL and support for teaching and learning go together at your institution. Please discuss overall structural relationships rather than focusing on smaller, personnel-driven relationships that might also exist.

You might, for example, say that you have two separate centers that seldom collaborate, or that WIL is located at the department level but T&L is at the institutional level and works with departmental WIL representatives. However simple or complicated the structural relationship is, we'd like to hear about it.