Papers Accepted from Colleagues in the Following Countries:

• Australia
• Botswana
• Canada
• China
• France
• Germany
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Namibia
• New Zealand
• Singapore
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Thailand
• Tunisia
• United Kingdom
• United States

Accepted Presentations

We are delighted to present a list of the following accepted presentations:

• Embracing Skills-Based Hiring: A Win-Win for Students and Employers
• Global Fluency and the Transdisciplinary X Thinker – Preparing Leaders and Learners for The Future
• Outpace Future Disruptions: The Transformational Role of Data and AI in Work-Integrated Learning
• GLOBAL WIL CAPSTONE GROUP: special session
• To pay or not to pay: What can we learn?
• Human-Related Competencies in the Future of Work
• "It's different than most majors": Factors Impacting the Career Development of Entrepreneurship Students in a Cooperative Education Program
• The 3-minute practicum: a new way for students to reflect and share their WIL experience
• Sustainability Internships: A Way to Promote International Students' Sense of Belonging and Connectedness
• Workplace Ideation, Planning, and Innovation Skills for Employment Success
• How Nanyang Technological University successfully implemented compulsory internships for all undergraduates in the College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences and College of Science?
• Having Fun: Successfully navigating an international research seminar in work-integrated learning
• Experiential Education - Soft Skills: Hard Results
• Chase for talent: A conversation about 2 unique and highly successful WIL models - University of Waterloo’s North American and Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University’s European approach
• The impact of Work-integrated Learning and the internationalization of STEM training on youth employment in Africa
• WILspace: Creating global connections for the future of WIL
• The Role and Importance of WIL and community development to the Higher Education Institutions: A Green Innovative and Entrepreneurial Approach
• Global Challenge: Building students employability skills for an uncertain world
• How do students understand quality WIL experiences? A scoping review of the literature and agenda for future research
• Entrepreneurship in a Faculty of Arts: Innovating an E-WIL ecosystem for UBC graduate and undergraduate Arts students at a large, research intensive university
• Nudging Co-op Students: Towards an Application of Behavioural Insights to Co-operative Education
• The Indigenous Work-integrated Learning Resource Hub: A needs-based approach to addressing barriers and opportunities for Indigenous students
• Grad WIL Re-imaged - Supporting Graduate Students Through WIL for Innovation and Economic Development
• Cultivating creative collaboration in a time of crisis - The origin story of a cross-institutional and multi-disciplinary WIL journal
• A Global Skills Revolution - Adapting and Thriving in Tomorrow’s Work and Learning Ecosystem
• Exploring challenges in WIL: A learning curve from an Indonesian perspective
• Work-integrated learning for inclusion of individuals with disabilities in Malaysia
• Multidisciplinary WIL: Impact Lab at the University of Waikato
• Reinventing Thai Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education (CWIE) for A New Global Context: Showcasing Thailand as Potential Partner for CWIE Collaborations
• Partners in Applied WIL in Criminology Subjects
• Quality standards for curriculum design and assessment in Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): A Canadian Model
• Innovative Practices in Workforces Development in K-12 Teaching
• An inclusive approach to developing student journalists employability: wise practice in action
• Developing Innovative WIL in Canada: A CEWIL Canada Story
• Bringing Experiential Engagement into the Introductory Psychology classroom through quiz interactions with avatars
• The Practice of International WIL
• Enabling inclusive employability: Designing work-integrated learning that supports students in uncovering who they are, and who they want to become
• Preparing Future Proof Curricula to Boost the Economy and Contribute to Social Cohesion: a Western Cape, South African perspective
• Supporting WIL student wellbeing
• EXAKT4YOU - Interdisciplinary Service Learning from High Performance Computing and Rural Energy Solutions to Sustainability Communication
• Student wellbeing challenges whilst on work placement: Preliminary results
• Looking through the rear-view window: Lessons Learned from one Canadian Province’s Ministry of Advanced Education's Work Integrated Learning Funding Initiative
• From the Classroom to the Community:  Implementing Work Integrated Learning in the Bachelor of Arts – Psychology

Notes about the 2023 conference:

WACE 2023 will be hosted in-person at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. However, as international restrictions and travel guidelines continue to evolve due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference format is subject to change.

Continue to check this page for updates to the WACE 2023 conference programming.