The Waterloo Career Center has implemented work-based learning (WBL) (incorporating academic knowledge, technical skills, and professional skills) to enhance the real-life work experience for our students. Our WBL program partners with our business partners to satisfy the industry requirement for skilled and talented professionals while also meeting the needs of the students with the desire to work within a field of interest. Our WBL programs are targeted to bridge the gap between the learning and the doing.1) What Work Based Learning is 2) What Work Based Learning framework like at the Waterloo Career Center 3) What the process of identifying students for WBL looks like 4) Struggles & Successes of WBL at the WCC
