New Zealand Association

for Cooperative Education

NZACE Chairperson Associate Professor Richard Coll practicing pukana at the 2007 NZACE conference dinner. Dr Chris Eames recieving honorary membership with NZACE for his significant contributions to cooperative education.

10th Annual NZACE Conference

Theme: Developing work-integrated learning in
cooperative education and internship programmes

Location: Rotorua, April 19-20, 2007

Proceedings (pdf)

Allister McLay Best Paper Award

• Dave Hodges and Diana Ayling
  A portfolio model of learning: reframing assessment practices in a business cooperative education course

Papers and presenters:

• Teamwork skills for the workplace: are employers getting what they need?
  Jill Clark, Trish Baker and Marbeth Isaac



• Student’s reflective learning journeys in sport cooperative education
  Jenny Fleming and Andy Martin



• The changing role of the lecturer in industry-orientated education
  Ziming Qi and James Cannan



• Addressing the weak link: enhancing the support for the sponsors of student placements in cooperative education
  Keryn McDermott



• Faculty views on the influence of work placements on students’ ability to do science graduate studies
  Karsten Zegwaard, Susan McCurdy and Levinia Paku



• Distance learning and teaching in cooperative education
  Gwyn Claxton and Katharine Hoskyn



• The use of artifacts to facilitate reflective dialogue: Does this have implications for students’ supervised work-based learning experiences?
  Jenny Walker and Tom Stehlik



• What benefits are there in using an online program to coordinate cooperative education students on placement?
  Sharleen Howison



• A portfolio model of learning: reframing assessment practices in a business cooperative education course
  Dave Hodges and Diana Ayling



• End-user computing: experiences of IT-literate graduates in a variety of organizational contexts: a research proposal
  Roanne Birch



• Ethical challenges from the real world: student experiences in cooperative education placements
  Diana Ayling



• Academic voices Part II: what are faculty saying about cooperative education?
  Susan McCurdy, Karsten Zegwaard and Mark Lay



• Improving co-op placement processes with technology
  Levinia Paku and Mark Lay



• Investigating students preferred communication means
  Mark Lay and Levinia Paku