Engagement
Engaging our students in activities that connect them with industry and the working community will enrich their learning experience and enable the development of knowledge to reach a level of deep understanding.
The Curriculum 2012 priority of Engagement refers quite specifically to mutually beneficial partnerships between ECU students and our communities for student learning as part of each course.
On these pages you will find support material to assist you with embedding Engagement in the curriculum.
Factsheets (Please start here)
- Engagement (background, principles and ideas)
- Workplace Integrated Learning (background, principles and ideas)
Embedding
Examples of Engagement
There are many excellent ECU examples to be found at:
http://www.ecu.edu.au/community/overview
Please look under Partnerships and Health Advancement
More examples:
- Curriculum 2012: Enabling the Learning Journey; Examples for Teachers pages 23-30 are about WIL and Engagement
- ECU Engagement with a Truffle Company
- ECU Engagement with a Brewery
Policies
Other resources
At ECU
- ECU Community Engagement website
- Current Engagement Partnerships
- Engagement@ECU 2011 100 partnerships
Professional Associations
- ACEN Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN)
- WACE World Association for Cooperative Education
- AUCEA Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA)
Reports
Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) Resources
- Curriculum and pedagogic bases for effectively integrating practice-based experiences
- Guidelines for practice: Integrating practice-based experiences
- Tracking and Measuring Engagement (TaME)
- ALTC Good Practice Report: Work-integrated learning
- The WIL (Work Integrated Learning) Report
Journals
- Australian Journal of Career Development (AJCD)
- The Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education (APJCE)
- Australasian Journal of University Community Engagement
- International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
Conference Papers
- AUCEA conference proceedings
- WACE conference papers
- List of Australian literature on community engagement