Conference paper Green Open Access 2012

Success factors and problems encountered in the workplace learning of university/college of technology students in Taiwan: A five-star hotel as an example

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Wang, Mey Tyng
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Lei, Guohong
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Conference · Vol. 7513 LNCS · pp. 401-408
Abstract

In order to help students in universities/colleges of technology close the education-employment gaps, Taiwan's educational authorities promoted workplace-learning programs. However, what are the success factors and problems encountered? This article reaches three defined conclusions: 1) student can internalize knowledge and skills over time, and apply them to workplace except for improving performance; 2) student can develop initiative characters, improve innovation, and even activate industries to think with novel ideas; 3) and, the lacking earnest attitude as well as deficiency of communication ability affect the performance which should be. Following with these conclusions, three recommendations are offered: 1) it would be proper to strengthen student's professional intellect for future development; 2) it would be proper to strengthen student's vocational capability in practice, including individual personality; 3) and, it would be proper to offer related testing or scaling tools to help student get awareness and thus upgrade their attitude during workplace-learning. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2012.

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workplace learning Hospitality industry success factor University/college of technology

Index Keywords

Engineering education Students Workplace learning Hospitality industry Success factors Improving performance Parallel architectures
Author Affiliations
Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
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