Background Professionalisation was cited as one of the key drivers for the recent addition of
paramedics to the National Accreditation and Regulation Scheme (NRAS) making …

With this paper, we explore early placement experiences and their pedagogical potential,
including ways of keeping students enrolled and persisting with their studies. Few university …

Introduction Paramedicine is at a critical juncture in its history as a healthcare profession.
The evolution of paramedic practice in Australia over recent decades has culminated in its …

For civil engineering undergraduates, short-term industrial work placement provides an
invaluable learning experience. Notwithstanding the near-universal endorsement of short …

Objective: To explore the prospects of academic e-learning by evaluating our long-standing
internet-based surgical learning program and to assess the impact of training on the …

Driven by the massification and marketization of higher education, interest in experiential
learning has grown as universities compete to demonstrate the vocational relevance of their …

In this early part of the twenty-first century, we are witnessing dramatic changes to the
university education landscape. Student cohorts are increasingly more diverse and globally …

Workplace learning (WPL) is an educational partnership between students, university and
industry or community where learning and working are blended and occur across …

This chapter proposes knowledge acquisition on the discipline of sound design by
questioning its practitioners and therefore exploring its multidisciplinary aspects according to …

The professionalization of occupations has led to the increased demand for specialized
knowledge in many fields, in response to which Higher Education (HE) institutions have …