Reinforcing Work-integrated Learning with Technology Enhancement and the Concept of Bringing Your Own Data
2022 (English)In: Proceedings of 16th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 2022, Vol. 16Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In the contemporary digitalisation, the reinforcement of professional development and organisational upskilling in a business is essential. The shift to a knowledge society requires technology enhanced and work-integrated professional development aimed at developing the staff’s domain-specific knowledge as well as profession-based digital competence. With this short backdrop, the aim of this paper is to describe and discuss how academia collaborated with companies and organisations in the Swedish BUFFL-project. This was a two-year collaborative project for professional development for insurance and bank company staff and a specific focus on organisational development. The project was carried out as a cross-disciplinary collaboration between researchers from different departments in three universities and six companies. The overall research question to answer was: "What are the course participants' attitudes towards technology enhanced, and work-integrated professional development involving 'Bringing Your Own Data' (BOYD)?". The BYOD approach was part of a course design rule in the BUFFL-project meaning that all course modules should include at least one assignment related to the course literature, and one assignment based on the involved companies' own brought data. This study used a mixed method approach combining a descriptive statistical analysis of Likert-questions with a deductive thematic analysis. The analysed data was extracted from evaluation questionnaires for 14 course modules in the BUFFL-project. Results have been grouped into the categories of 'Technology enhancement' and 'Work-integrated learning with participant brought data'. Findings indicate that the quality of technology enhancement is critical, and that the minor technical issues in some course batches have disturbed the teaching and learning activities. However, in general participants seemed to portray a general positive attitude towards the BUFFL model for technology enhanced professional development. Finally, the concept of Bringing Your Own Data appears to have a potential to reinforce work-integrated learning.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. Vol. 16
Keywords [en]
Work-integrated learning, WIL, Professional development, Technology enhanced learning, Bring your own data, Academy meets the industry
National Category
Learning
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44598DOI: 10.21125/inted.2022ISBN: 978-84-09-37758-9 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-44598DiVA, id: diva2:1644504
Conference
INTED 2022, International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain, March 7-9, 2022.
Projects
BUFFL2022-03-142022-03-142022-03-14Bibliographically approved