The program baselines are the analysis of WIL types using the Quality WIL Preparatory Curriculum Conceptual Framework to provide details about preparatory curriculum including: primary purpose, stakeholder, institutional context, duration, institutional integration, format, requirements, and educators. WIL Practitioners can use the baselines to understand the diversity of offerings for WIL…

Use the Quality WIL Preparatory Curriculum Conceptual Framework’s guiding questions to support your quality assurance and design of WIL Preparatory Curriculum. The framework is aligned with the scholarship in the field and the questions ask the WIL Practitioner to identity the components of quality in learning outcomes, learning and teaching…

This is an info session featuring two SWPP delivery partners: Cheryl Serpanchy, the Regional Coordinator at ICTC WIL Digital and Peter Greenall, a Senior Programs Manager at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce which administers the Talent Opportunities Program. They review student positions their programs can fund, employer and student eligibility…

List of projects that were funded under Phase II of the provincial government’s co-op and WIL funding initiative. (Last update: September 27, 2021) Topics: BC WIL Council License and Distribution: ACE-WIL Copyright List of Phase II Projects, Budgets and Contact Info

Across BC, organizations are turning to work-integrated learning students (WIL) to supply their workplaces with fresh, emerging talent. Find out more about how working with WIL students can benefit your organization. Topics: Engaging with Employers License and Distribution: ACE-WIL Copyright Tags: employers, students, WIL, work-integrated learning What Work-Integrated Learning Can…

Recommendations and resources to support employer engagement and relationship building with local Chambers Topics: Engaging with Employers License and Distribution: Talent Forward Tags: employers, recruitment Working with Chambers and Employers Toolkit

Social media content is accessible if it meets the needs universally of all audience members. This means understanding and implementing communication practices that maximize adaptive technologies, ensuring that published content optimizes accessibility features used by some audience members to interpret content. It also means considering all perspectives and providing engaging…

Pivoting during a pandemic has reinforced the significance of providing online virtual spaces through accessible virtual events, meetings and digital communications. With accessibility in the virtual event sphere often overlooked, this guide aims to provoke action when engaging Work Integrated Learning (WIL) student participants in the virtual event space. License…

The objectives of this project are to provide detailed information about preparatory curriculum for diverse types of WIL using the data collected from participating post-secondary institutions in the province of BC. The baselines for diverse types of WIL are specific to the: • Curricular programs for WIL student preparation. •…

Templates for reporting on project outcomes. Topics: BC WIL Council License and Distribution: ACE-WIL Copyright Phase 1 Interim Report Template Phase 1 Final Report Template

Latest newsletter: October 2021. The quarterly COWIL Newsletters contain important updates about projects and facilitate sharing between projects. Topics: BC WIL Council License and Distribution: ACE-WIL Copyright Tags: archive, cowil initiative, newsletter, october 2021 December 2020 COWIL Newsletter October 2021 COWIL Newsletter

Power dynamics are inevitable in relationships, they play a particularly important role at work, and are especially crucial when we bring into consideration the obvious power dynamics between a Co-op student and their employer. The same goes for communicating across difference and being aware of our unconscious biases and assumptions…