Faculty & staff

At Royal Roads University we believe experiential learning puts education in action. Students will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and ideas within a practical and professional setting.

Opportunities range from internships, co-ops and field practice and community and industry-partnered projects or challenges.

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Two categories of experiential learning

In these opportunities, students are integrated into the workplace through opportunities that formally connect academic studies with professional career experiences.

Work integrated learning includes an invested and engaged partnership between an RRU instructor, a community partner and the student.

At RRU, work integrated learning options include co-op, internship, and field practice.

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Experiential Learning resources

Baker, A., Jensen, P.J. & Kolb, D.A. (2002). Conversational Learning: An Experiential Approach to Knowledge Creation. Quorum Books.
Kolb, D.A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Kolb, D.A. & Peterson, K. ( 2017). How You Learn Is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life. Berrett-Koehler.
Kolb, D.A. & Kolb, A.Y. (2017). The Experiential Educator: Principles and Practices of Experiential Learning. Experience Based Learning Systems Inc.
McRae, N. (2015). Exploring conditions for transformative learning in work-integrated education. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, Special Issue, 16(2), 137-144. https://www.ijwil.org/files/APJCE_16_2_137_144.pdf

Experiential Learning Frameworks:

RRU VPA SharePoint site Experiential Learning activities: planning guidelines, credential programs
CLD Centralized Service Model
Teamwork Competencies and Skills Framework
Learning, Teaching & Research Model

Resources:

RRU EL-Work-Integrated Learning Risk Management Handbook
Career Learning and Development Web Resources
Team Coaching Teamwork Web Resources
Centre for Teaching and Education Technology
Off-Campus Risk Management for Activities and Experiential Learning
Note: This Moodle resource is RRU’s information sharing, document repository and risk management resource for staff and faculty coordinating Field Trips, Field Schools and other off-site group activities. To access the course, please reach out to Career Learning and Development

Association of Co-op Education and Work-integrated Learning. ACE-WIL is BC’s provincial association for WIL.

Visit the ACE-WIL website.
Check out their Resource Hub for emerging projects and research on practices in WIL focused on equity, diversity and inclusion, embedding UNSDG’s in WIL curriculum, Indigenous WIL resources and more.

Co-op Education and Work Integrated Learning-Canada. CEWIL is the lead organization for WIL in Canada. Modelled since 1973, CEWIL work in partnerships to support quality academic WIL programs.