Work-based learning: A learning strategy in support of the Myanmar education framework

Abstract

In Myanmar, the main issue of educational field is disjunction of classroom lectures and practices. The students never know how to apply their theoretical skills in real workplace. Based on this issue, this paper introduced a toolkit called Work-Based Learning (WBL) for Myanmar students. In 2017, our university, University of Technology (Yatanarpon Cyber City), UTYCC, introduced WBL toolkit to facilitators and students. After running WBL activities for three years, there are many key factors in using of this toolkit for Myanmar students. This paper discusses about the analytical result of applying WBL toolkit in university level consist of facilitators, students and industries.

Keywords

• WBL
• Theoretical skills
• real workplace
• Facilitators
• Students
• Industries

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