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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|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"/>