Technology enhanced food industry engagement and work placement curriculum quality assurance

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dc.contributor.authorDunne, Julie
dc.contributor.editorSupple, Brionyen
dc.contributor.editorDelahunty, Tomen
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T09:47:07Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T09:47:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractA recent report has identified several challenges and barriers from the employer perspective that can limit their ability to engage with work-placement (Jackson, Rowbottom, Ferns, & McLarend, 2017). These include a lack of shared understanding between the University and Industry of what is involved in work-placement; misalignment between employer and university expectations on the purpose and nature of the placement experience, especially what constitutes a quality placement and how this can be achieved; and ability to locate a suitable student. Additionally, not being approached by Universities and/or access to relevant University staff who arrange work-placements can be problematic. For unstructured work-placements, identifying suitable projects for students to undertake was found to be a considerable challenge. Recommendations to the University to reduce such barriers centre around developing collaborative relationships. In Ireland, specific guidelines to facilitate quality work-placement have been compiled in the ‘Roadmap for Academic-Employment Partnerships (REAP) Work-placement in Third Level-Programmes’ report (Sheridan & Linehan, 2011), and focus mainly on communications, learning agreements, mentoring practices, student selection processes, reflection on practice, and assessment and feedback mechanisms. This paper will set out how the recommendations of the REAP report for work-placement were realised in TU Dublin Food related programmes, and the important role that technology played in this process.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationDunne, J. (2019) 'Technology enhanced food industry engagement and work placement curriculum quality assurance', Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December, pp. 39-44. doi: 10.33178/LC.2019.09en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/LC.2019.09
dc.identifier.endpage44
dc.identifier.startpage39
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10726
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.publisherNational Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEmployeren
dc.subjectWork-placementen
dc.subjectUniversityen
dc.subjectIndustryen
dc.subjectQualityen
dc.subjectProjecten
dc.subjectRoadmap for Academic-Employment Partnershipsen
dc.subjectREAPen
dc.titleTechnology enhanced food industry engagement and work placement curriculum quality assuranceen
dc.typeConference itemen
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