Facilitating the Transition to Higher Education With a Digital Pathway

Komulainen, Kati; Tani, Petri; Ylikoski, Teemu

doi:10.21125/iceri.2017.0196

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“…In various Western countries, including Australia, there are a growing number of diploma-qualified nurses from vocational programs enrolling in university Bachelor of Nursing programs to upgrade their qualifications. [1][2][3] Universities typically provide these students, known as pathway students, with credit (advanced standing or recognition of prior learning), and so they enter their Bachelor of Nursing program in second year. Students without a prior nursing qualification, in contrast, commence their program in first year.…”

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Nurturing academic writing for students in an enrolled to registered nurse conversion course at university

Emmanuel

Chaseling²,

Boyd³

2019

JNEP

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A growing number of diploma-qualified nurses from vocational programs are enrolling in university Bachelor of Nursing programs to upgrade their qualifications. Universities typically provide these students with credit so they enter the Bachelor of Nursing program in second year. Known as pathway students, these students tend to miss the orientating opportunities that other students experience in their first-year university enrolment. This lack of first-year opportunity can be challenging for many pathway students, notably in academic writing. This paper reports on a tailored and scaffolded academic-writing teaching strategy designed for pathway students in their initial semester of learning. Both the students themselves, and teachers report evidence of improvements in academic writing amongst the pathway students.

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Section: Introduction Challenges For Pathway Studentsmentioning

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Nurturing academic writing for students in an enrolled to registered nurse conversion course at university

Emmanuel

Chaseling²,

Boyd³

2019

JNEP

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“…Positive results with the Digital Pathway resulted in an expansion from vocational schools into academic upper secondary schools ("high schools") as well (3). As these are on the secondary level in the Finnish education system, we will use the term "secondary schools" for both in this text.…”

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Building Bridges Between Vocational Education, Upper Secondary and Higher Education – A Common Digital Learning Environment (Cdle)

Tani¹,

Komulainen²,

Ylikoski³

2018

ICERI2018 Proceedings

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Finland, the country famed for its education, is seeing a decreasing trend in higher education. The number of students who proceed to higher education has developed a downward trend during the last few years. Also, the length of studies in higher education is longer than in other European countries. The Ministry of the Education and Culture has challenged universities of applied sciences to develop innovative ways to shorten the overall study time. At the same time, many students starting their higher educational studies are older than in other European countries.The aim of this study is to describe a development project between Laurea University of Applied Sciences and several vocational secondary schools and general upper secondary schools in Finland's metropolitan area. We have co-created a common digital learning environment which is conceived as an ecosystem -a learning environment consisting of learning tools and components that adhere to common learning goals. In the system, secondary school students have the option of taking some studies from Laurea. This gives them a head start in their future university level studies and helps to bridge the transition.The developed "common digital learning environment" (CDLE) is an ecosystem more focused on learning rather than administration. The purpose of the CDLE has been to shorten overall study time and to give vocational students an option to try higher education studies as a part of their vocational educational studies or studies at upper secondary. The CDLE model has shown that it is possible to integrate higher educational studies with secondary level studies.This article discusses ways of integrating studies between educational levels via a digital learning ecosystem. In this article, we will present a concrete model of the CDLE. This model is ecological, economical, reachable and student centred. The findings of the project are promising. So far, we have opened the CDLE for almost all of Laurea's bachelor programs.In the future we aim to make the CDLE available for master's level programs as well. We conclude that there are different ways to shorten study times, intensify studies between levels of degrees and to give a chance to try higher educational studies using digital learning opportunities, such as the common digital learning environment CDLE.

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Facilitating the Transition to Higher Education With a Digital Pathway

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Nurturing academic writing for students in an enrolled to registered nurse conversion course at university

Nurturing academic writing for students in an enrolled to registered nurse conversion course at university

Building Bridges Between Vocational Education, Upper Secondary and Higher Education – A Common Digital Learning Environment (Cdle)

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