Work-ready wiki: Supporting the learning and teaching of professional graduate attributes

Litchfield, A; Nettleton, S

Work-ready wiki: Supporting the learning and teaching of professional graduate attributes

Litchfield, A Nettleton, S

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: ASCILITE 2008 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2008, pp. 552 - 561
Issue Date:: 2008-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Litchfield, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Nettleton, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	ASCILITE 2008 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2008, pp. 552 - 561	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780980592702	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12713
dc.description.abstract	The paper presents the background, design and formative evaluation of a wiki of workready learning activities and teaching support resources to improve the learning of professional graduate attributes. The 'Improving graduate work-readiness' project is a University of Technology Sydney curriculum renewal project involving five Faculties. The project aims to improve graduates' professional attributes and employability skills by designing new subjects, new subject modules and integrating short well-designed contextualised work-ready learning activities into existing subjects. The authors inquired of relevant professional societies their understandings of the key professional attributes required of a graduate in the contemporary workplace. These findings informed the design of a matrix of 11 professional attributes and associated sub-attributes and aligned understandings and skills that can be learnt. The work-ready wiki gives access to a matrix of generic work-ready learning activities and 16 matrixes of learning activities contextualised for each professional area of study involved in the project to-date. Workready activities contextualised for each profession maximises student relevance and motivation to learn. Maximising the ease of integration of work-ready activities into existing subjects has guided the design of the wiki-based learning activities. From the wiki practical teaching support resources can be downloaded to enable easier integration of the work-ready learning activities. The beginning of collections of work-ready learning activities can be found at <wiki.it.uts.edu.au/workready>. © 2008 Andrew Litchfield and Skye Nettleton.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ASCILITE 2008 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education	en_US
dc.title	Work-ready wiki: Supporting the learning and teaching of professional graduate attributes	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	0899 Other Information and Computing Sciences	en_US
dc.location.activity	Melbourne, Australia	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Systems, Management and Leadership
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

The paper presents the background, design and formative evaluation of a wiki of workready learning activities and teaching support resources to improve the learning of professional graduate attributes. The 'Improving graduate work-readiness' project is a University of Technology Sydney curriculum renewal project involving five Faculties. The project aims to improve graduates' professional attributes and employability skills by designing new subjects, new subject modules and integrating short well-designed contextualised work-ready learning activities into existing subjects. The authors inquired of relevant professional societies their understandings of the key professional attributes required of a graduate in the contemporary workplace. These findings informed the design of a matrix of 11 professional attributes and associated sub-attributes and aligned understandings and skills that can be learnt. The work-ready wiki gives access to a matrix of generic work-ready learning activities and 16 matrixes of learning activities contextualised for each professional area of study involved in the project to-date. Workready activities contextualised for each profession maximises student relevance and motivation to learn. Maximising the ease of integration of work-ready activities into existing subjects has guided the design of the wiki-based learning activities. From the wiki practical teaching support resources can be downloaded to enable easier integration of the work-ready learning activities. The beginning of collections of work-ready learning activities can be found at . © 2008 Andrew Litchfield and Skye Nettleton.

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