Work-integrated learning

Um, and the second thing is, of course, what I referred to before as, um, WIL everything everywhere all at once.

[laughs] Um, which was, um, embedding more than, um, into more than 800 units, um, uh, WIL placements, internships, and industry and community partnered, um, work integrated learning, uh, experiences.

So I mean, the beauty of WIL is that if it's done well, it updates itself, um, as your, uh, your work practices change and as technologies change.

Um, and so that's a beautiful thing.

So, um, as, as a, um, a brief example, a student in their first nursing prac can come away with an immediate sense of, "Oh, yeah, right, nursing isn't for me." Um, or, "Actually, I had an experience that leads me to think that I'm, I'm really interested in gerontology, and I really want to pursue that." And you can work with both of those possibilities.

Um, and so the student continues, um, to develop their identity and their ways of, of becoming and being, um, as they navigate their course.

Very powerful work integrated learning.

Um, Sophia, let's pick up on that idea of, uh, identity development for you as a law student.

Yeah, that's great.

So another term that jumped out to me was this concept of work-integrated learning.

And I think the reason that interests me is because it was about three years into my degree before I first set foot in an engineering workplace.

And I remember very distinctly thinking, Gee, I really hope this works out because I've put a lot into it at this point.