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Vocational Training In Higher Education, Jeff Ruigrok Jan 2018

Vocational Training In Higher Education, Jeff Ruigrok

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Vocational Training In Higher Education: A Learning Centred Approach To Integrating ‘Educultures’, Jeff Ruigrok May 2017

Vocational Training In Higher Education: A Learning Centred Approach To Integrating ‘Educultures’, Jeff Ruigrok

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The goal of this effort is to make plain any overlap between Post-Secondary Mechanical Technician Standards and Plumbing Apprenticeship Curriculum Standards. We'll investigate whether the overlap is significant enough to create a modern and updated classroom learning template. Mechanical Technician programs are generally 56 weeks in length. A Plumbing Apprenticeship is significantly longer. The essential question is: What portion of Technician Education equates to the first 100 to 200 weeks of Apprenticeship Training. If enough meaningful and actionable overlaps do exist there may be opportunities to strengthen real-world-connections to in-school lectures and labs.

The two key Standards that will be …


Teaching & Learning Template: Plumbing By Learning Type And Style, Jeff Ruigrok Mar 2017

Teaching & Learning Template: Plumbing By Learning Type And Style, Jeff Ruigrok

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