Article 2022

Expectations for cooperative instruction supported by the internet+employment platform in work placement practice

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning
Journal · Vol. 32 · Issue 5 · pp. 576-590
Abstract

Close high-quality cooperation between a workplace employer and the college is a prerequisite for effective training of students in vocational education. Therefore, the researcher adopted the internet+employment platform as a typical case to analyse its main supportive functions for work placement instruction. Descriptive data analysis was employed to study the expectations of both vocational students and workplace supervisors for the cooperative teaching supported by the platform. The case study showed that the platform was weak in several areas such as in sharing teaching resources to facilitate employer-college cooperation. The results of the data analysis suggested that most students and workplace supervisors have a thorough understanding of the importance of closer cooperation and cooperative assessment by both the employer and the college. However, the expectations of the students and workplace supervisors were different in seven aspects. Among them, the students did not expect much cooperation that would lead to a closer monitoring of their work positions, and the willingness of the workplace supervisors to cooperate with college advisors in the use of cloud technology was quite limited. Suggestions for future development of the internet+employment platform were proposed. Combining the functions of this platform with those of other cloud platforms might support better employer-college cooperative instruction. © © 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

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Author Keywords

Work placement cloud platform technology cooperative instruction student and employers’ expectation workplace supervisor

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Employment Case-studies Students Vocational education High quality Supervisory personnel Work placement Information analysis Data handling Cloud platform technology Cloud platforms Cooperative instruction Platform technology Student and employer’ expectation Workplace supervisor
Author Affiliations
Department of Economics and Management, Hunan College of Information, Changsha, Hunan, China
Funding & Acknowledgements
Grant: 19C1320
This research was supported by: 1) 2019 Vocational Teaching and Research Reformation Program of Hunan Province of China: The Implementation of Big Data Supported Work Post Practice of Vocational College Students in Enterprises (Project Reference: ZJGB2019026); 2) 2019 Scientific Research Project of Hunan Education Department of China (Project Reference: 19C1320); 3) Hunan Social Science Evaluation Committee (Project reference: XSP21YBZ173).
Grant: XSP21YBZ173
This research was supported by: 1) 2019 Vocational Teaching and Research Reformation Program of Hunan Province of China: The Implementation of Big Data Supported Work Post Practice of Vocational College Students in Enterprises (Project Reference: ZJGB2019026); 2) 2019 Scientific Research Project of Hunan Education Department of China (Project Reference: 19C1320); 3) Hunan Social Science Evaluation Committee (Project reference: XSP21YBZ173).
Grant: ZJGB2019026
This research was supported by: 1) 2019 Vocational Teaching and Research Reformation Program of Hunan Province of China: The Implementation of Big Data Supported Work Post Practice of Vocational College Students in Enterprises (Project Reference: ZJGB2019026); 2) 2019 Scientific Research Project of Hunan Education Department of China (Project Reference: 19C1320); 3) Hunan Social Science Evaluation Committee (Project reference: XSP21YBZ173).
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