Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus (OPAIC) offers student internships through its Green Office Toitū programme, with the aim of developing sustainability awareness and skills in a non-simulated, experiential context. In order to investigate the impact of sustainability internships, the Employability and the Learning & Teaching teams at OPAIC have been conducting a long term research project on the perceptions, learning progress, skill acquisition and career paths of th…
This conceptual analysis of experiential learning is framed in the context of a recent Experiential Education Initiative at Auckland International Campus. Our study is based on emergent themes from student activities submitted by lecturers in Applied Management, Construction and IT. From this qualitative data, four key concepts of activity design (context, interaction, process, product) and four phases of learning experience (concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract concep…
These guidance notes were developed during the current review of assessment practices at Auckland International Campus (AIC). They are based on the work undertaken so far by four lecturers in AIC’s Experiential Education Initiative working group, whose project is aimed at redesigning assessments in Applied Management, Construction and IT in order to make them more experiential and better suited to the development of employability skills. While the assessments themselves are discipl…
It is barely two years since ChatGPT was launched, followed by a whole gamut of new chatbots (Rudolph et al., 2023), and
already a great deal has changed, not only in the education sector but throughout industry and the world at large. How
artificial intelligence (AI) will impact vocational education and training (VET), as well as job opportunities for graduates and
the nature of work in the future can only be guessed at. But while specific consequences of generative and other form…