Real-world tips for virtual student placements

It isn’t only courses that are on-line, student placements are now a digital experience

It’s an experience new to work integrated learning organisers, so WIL practitioners, Friederika Kaider, Harsh Suri and Wayne Read (all Deakin U), Leoni Russell (RMIT) and Annette Marlow, (U Tas) have created a twelve-tip guide to virtual WIL.

It’s obviously useful now, and it will stay so after the pestilence passes. The authors point to “the changing nature of work, reflected in increased contract and ‘gig’ work (and) the expanding digitisation of jobs” as increasing demand for student placements that aren’t in a physical place.

The guide is  here.