Integrating Academic and Career Development Toolkit
Explore this toolkit for four resources to develop experiential learning opportunities, encourage reflection, and enable assessment.
To give students an opportunity to test their early career interests and demonstrate skills and competencies gained in the classroom in a real-world setting, many institutions are developing experiential learning programs. Unfortunately, career services offices can struggle to manage and assess these opportunities as they expand and faculty, often unfamiliar with their design or unsure of their impact on student learning, can hesitate to develop them.
This toolkit will help guide your career services and faculty members through the design, implementation, and monitoring of effective experiential learning opportunities including reflection techniques to identify skills applied and gained during the experience. Determine the best fit experiential learning program for your campus with a collection of literature on the impact, cost, scalability, and other features of different types of experiential learning (e.g., study abroad, service-learning). This toolkit is part of the study Integrating Academic and Career Development.
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Tool 1: Career Services Platform Comparison Chart
To provide a better sense of the career services vendor landscape, EAB has profiled the key features of some of the most popular career services platforms/management systems.
Tool 2: Experiential Learning Reflection Toolkit
Institutions can help students prepare to articulate the value of their education—both academic and professional—to employers by incorporating a structured, three-stage reflection process into cocurricular activities. We have compiled exemplar reflection-focused course syllabi, exercises, and assessment rubrics to support the development of high-impact experiential learning opportunities. Explore the list of resources below.
Tool 3: Experiential Learning Impact Analysis and Bibliography
We have distilled the most important peer-reviewed research and controlled study on experiential learning and our own analysis of expert interviews and case studies to document the relative impact of different types of experiential learning on factors such as cost to the institution and buy-in. Use this tool to lead discussions with committees and taskforces on campus to match programs to your needs.
To help further the conversation on experiential learning across campus, we have also provided a curated list of the best articles and publications regarding topics from career decidedness and persistence to the impact of first-year career courses.
Tool 4: Build Your Own Experiential Learning Resource Center
Based on work done at York University, this resource center consolidates implementation and compliance information typically housed across numerous campus units in one website. Centralizing this information removes barriers for faculty who are creating experiential learning opportunities.
The tool will help you build a website of your own that explains and demonstrates the various types of experiential learning available, and highlights the implementation resources required for each.
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