Extending and embedding work based learning across the university: change strategies in action [article]

This article will discuss some of the educational development strategies used to implement a university-wide project to extend and embed work based learning across all the schools. It will consider the change and engagement strategies that were used and give a flavour of the range of activities that were undertaken to integrate different modes of work based learning across the university. Based on a model of a hub which formed the core of the CEWBL, reaching as spokes into each school, promoted by individual WBL champions, different change approaches will be considered in relation to how WBL pedagogies were adopted in different subject disciplines. Factors which facilitated or hindered the embedding of WBL into schools will be considered in relation to the implications for future higher educational development projects.