A Primer for Work-Based Learning: How to Make a Job the Basis for a College Education

Provides an overview of the Jobs to Careers model, in which employers and colleges collaborate to embed curricula and training in the work process, as a way to meet healthcare labor force needs. Includes grantee profiles, lessons learned, and worksheets

Tracking digital impact (TDI) tool.

The Tracking Digital Impact (TDI) tool is designed to help researchers, research groups, projects and institutions assess their current and future digital engagement strategies in an objective and informed way to support the development of new and improved strategies that more effectively enable good engagement with businesses, communities, the public, governing bodies and other researchers to facilitate better engagement and greater impact. The TDI tool was developed as part of a JISC funded project which focused on identifying, synthesising and embedding business, community and public (BCE) engagement best practices. The TDI tool examined the best practices at the dot.rural Digital Economies hub at the University of Aberdeen and translated those (accompanied by new guidance) into the TDI tool. Parts of this document were sourced from 'Brief Notes on Social Media for Research' by Jennifer Holden (University of Aberdeen, October, 2012). This document describes the TDI tool and its use

Tracking digital impact (TDI) tool: key questions reference.

This is a quick reference summary of the 'Key Questions' developed as part of the large Tracking Digital Impact (TDI) Tool. Users with experience of digital technologies or have previously completed the TDI tool may find this a useful reference when re-assessing or completing new assessments

Case Study and TDI Tool, Embedding Research Impact round 2: Exeter University

Context * A drive to increase the impact of research outside of academia and demonstrate this through evidence. * Proving the impact of research generated by public, business and community engagement (BCE) is becoming ever more important. * Universities are now looking at better monitoring engagement. * Digital forms of engagement is a unique opportunity of potentially collecting "complete" information about how people are engaging the digital domain. * However, it is difficult to monitor and analyse engagement data in a meaningful, comparable manner without proper training and experience. * Universities have no yet adopted standard processes for tracking digital engagement or are in the early stages of doing so. * New guidelines are needed to help shape developing digital engagement policies. Purpose The TDI project explored the types of digital engagement that are currently in use and how they are monitored. The project assessed what BCE skills, digital focused and traditional, that were available in the institutions and set out to share and embed these skills and experiences across all partners