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"'''Work-based learning''' ('''WBL''') is an educational strategy that provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply academic and technical skills and develop their employability."<ref name="Web Based Learning">{{cite web|url=http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/cte/curriculum/work-based|title=Work-Based Learning}}</ref> It is a series of educational courses which integrate the school or university curriculum with the workplace to create a different learning paradigm. "Work-based learning deliberately merges theory with practice and acknowledges the intersection of explicit and tacit forms of knowing."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Raelin |first=Joseph |date=November 1997 |title= A Model of Work-Based Learning |journal=Organization Science |volume=8 |issue=6 |page=574 |doi=10.1287/orsc.8.6.563}}</ref>

"'''Work-based learning''' ('''WBL''') is an educational strategy that provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply academic and technical skills and develop their employability."<ref name="Web Based Learning">{{cite web|url=http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/cte/curriculum/work-based|title=Work-Based Learning}}</ref> It is a series of educational courses which integrate the school or university curriculum with the workplace to create a different learning paradigm. "Work-based learning deliberately merges theory with practice and acknowledges the intersection of explicit and tacit forms of knowing."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Raelin |first=Joseph |date=November 1997 |title= A Model of Work-Based Learning |journal=Organization Science |volume=8 |issue=6 |page=574 |doi=10.1287/orsc.8.6.563|hdl=10419/268442 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Most WBL programs are generally university accredited courses, aiming at a win-win situation where the learner's needs and the industry requirement for skilled and talented employees both are met. WBL programs are targeted to bridge the gap between the learning and the doing. "Work-based learning strategies provide career awareness, career exploration opportunities, career planning activities and help students attain competencies such as positive work attitudes and other employable skills."<ref name="Web Based Learning"/>

Work-based learning encompasses a diversity of [[Formal learning|formal]], [[Nonformal learning|nonformal]] and [[Informal learning|informal]] arrangements including apprenticeships, work placement and informal learning on the job. The key driver is the need for active policies to secure learning that meets the need of the workplace.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002428/242887e.pdf|title=Level-setting and recognition of learning outcomes: The use of level descriptors in the twenty-first century|last=Keevy|first=James|last2=Chakroun|first2=Borhene|publisher=Paris, UNESCO|year=2015|isbn=978-92-3-100138-3|___location=|pages=115}}</ref>

==Classification==

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* Community building exercise for productive economy <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gowerpublishing.com/pdf/SamplePages/Understanding-Work-Based-Learning-Roodhouse-Mumford-Ch2.pdf|title=Understanding Work-Based Learning}}</ref>

==DemeritsDisadvantages==

* Time-consuming activity to identify key courses that can be taught via WBL programs

* Needs careful consideration and planning when introducing WBL strategies within the existing curriculum

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==See also==

*[[Work-integrated learning]]

*[[Career and technical education]]

==References==

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