Definitions

Apprenticeship is a skilled trades training program where apprentices train on-the-job with qualified skilled workers.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Offsite

Remuneration: Paid

Required: Regulated by Ministry

Intensity: Employer for 85% to 90% of their program, and spend the remaining 10% to 15% of their program in classroom or online training.

Students spend a significant cumulative activity in the final semesters of a program that is based on knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work. It involves a creative, iterative, and often open-ended process using problem-based learning to address a project challenge.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: On/Offsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

Co-op formally integrates academic studies with work experience with participating employers. Co-op provides students with structured work experiences that promote career exploration, expand employer contacts and apply in-class teachings to real-work situations.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Typically offsite

Remuneration: Typically paid

Required: Optional

Intensity: The time spent in periods of work experience must be at least 30 percent of the time spent in academic study and no more than 75 per cent (minimum 420 hours). The program must must start end on an academic term. Co-op work term are scheduled in between academic.

Field placements provide designated hours of activities intended to give students hands-on experience in the workplace.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Typically offsite

Remuneration: Typically unpaid

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Length and scheduling varies by program (For example: two days a week or a 3-week block during an academic semester) and takes place during the academic semester.

In an on-campus lab environment, students will observe, test, apply course concepts, collaborate, and/or experience hands-on learning with tools, equipment, and resources authentic to a specific field of study.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Onsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

A teaching and learning strategy that involves an interactive and accurate representation of a field specific situation or process. Simulations are non-linear in nature and require students to utilize critical thinking skills to respond to ambiguity through direct decision-making.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Onsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

Work experience under the supervision of an experienced registered or licensed professional (e.g. preceptor) and required by a regulatory professional association in any discipline that requires practice-based work experience for professional licensure or certification.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Onsite

Remuneration: On/Offsite

Required: No

Intensity: Determined by program

Students explore academic content in a purposeful way either outside the classroom through short-term field trips/field-work/site visits or within an instructional setting with scheduled hands-on experience with instructional equipment and/or supplies.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: Typically offsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

Students will produce, manage, curate, or participate in an artistic presentation or performance, or portfolio exhibit for an audience.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: On/Offsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

Research that solves real world challenges and has immediate practical implications.
Research in partnership with industry and community agencies applies new knowledge, explores challenges and opportunities, directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective.

Academic Credit: If identified in POS

Location: On/Offsite

Remuneration: Dependant on research

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

Service learning integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: On/Offsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program

Durham College students participate in a spectrum of experiential learning within their courses in preparation for their success at work. Course-based EL evaluates learners’ performance of applied program knowledge given structured and authentic demands.

Academic Credit: Yes

Location: On/Offsite

Remuneration: No

Required: Determined by program

Intensity: Determined by program