In this paper, researchers highlight the impact of international work-integrated learning (WIL) program, Global Challenge.
This study explores the relationship between work-integrated learning (WIL) and teaching and learning (T&L). WIL and Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) organizations completed this survey.
In this paper, Andrea Prier, Anne-Marie Fannon, Jamieson Cox and Suman Armitage analyze the Waterloo Experience Accelerate (WEA) program. UWaterloo created WEA to respond to co-op student employment challenges amid the pandemic.
This study examines the international professional development needs for work-integrated learning (WIL). The survey data shows that the WIL community experienced both positive and negative impacts due to COVID-19.
Clearpath Robotics was founded when four Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering students started building robots on campus. The multi-million-dollar company attributes some of their success to the ability to hire students from the co-op program.
Co-op alumnus Swati Matta, founder and CEO of Koble, a health app is interviewed in a Q and A for wifhifi.
Alumni podcast focuses on Jeff LeJeune (BMath’96) and his journey as VP Engineering at Magnetic Forensics. The organization retains many co-op students as full-time employees.
The Future Ready Talent Framework developed by The Work-Learn Institute at the University of Waterloo is a fantastic guide to explain the skills needed in Future of work. In this episode of The Art & Science of Learning Inc. podcast, host Dr. Kinga Petrovai has a conversation with Anne Marie Fannon, Director of The Work-Learn Institute, about what employers & students need to know about skills & lifelong learning.
Waterloo co-op students are highlighted as a key component of tech organization Faire, who are one of "three companies you should know about."
Will Tatham says the most meaningful gift he’s made to the University of Waterloo isn’t the $4 million he donated to help build the largest co-operative services building at a Canadian university, which bears his name. Nor is it the $1 million he later gave for a new student lounge.