Dr. Norah McRae provides an international overview on the future of work and work-integrated learning.
Positive and negative work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences help to develop entrepreneurs. Judene Pretti, former director of the Work-Learn Institute at the University of Waterloo, says that WIL enables students to become problem solvers.
Work-integrated learning experiences, whether positive or negative, play an important role in developing successful entrepreneurs.
Co-op students travel to the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India to work for clean energy company, Avani Bio Energy, who converts destructive tinder into a renewable energy source. Avani won the first-ever Impact in Sustainability from Waterloo Employer Impact Awards presented by CEE.
Dr. Pretti joins BioTalent Canada to discuss the benefits of providing employees access to the skills they need for success.
Dr. Norah McRae, Shabnam Ivkovic and Dana Church propose an impact assessment model to better understand how international internships might be contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Tara Stevens, Judene Pretti and Norah McRae’s article examines how the future of work changed due to the global pandemic. To understand how to prepare students for the future of work-integrated learning, this paper reviews 32 recent reports on the future of work.
Researchers have identified three factors that are important to young people who work from home during the coronavirus pandemic: socialization, productivity and meaningful work.
Research from the Work-Learn Institute (WxL) identified three key factors for students working from home during the pandemic.
Judene Pretti joins WACE for a global conversation about the impact of COVID-19 on work-integrated learning programs.