Towards design guidelines for work related learning arrangements

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to produce design guidelines based on insights from both practice and theory that will enable teachers and educational developers to execute the design, implementation and evaluation of their work‐related learning arrangements with stakeholders involved.Design/methodology/approach – The first study reported in this paper can be characterised as an exploratory design study. The second and third study can be described as design‐oriented research.Findings – The case studies showed that to realize work related learning arrangements mutual understanding between stakeholders is needed to decide what has to be learned by the students and to create learning situations that have a high similarity with real working situations.Research limitations/implications – The ultimate evaluation question whether students indeed show high levels of learning outcomes on the levels of the framework when they followed work‐related learning arrangements that are arranged according to the desig...