Try our free guide to GenAI in Work-Integrated Learning
14 March 2025
We are absolutely delighted to share with you a new guide, developed by CRADLE members and colleagues who attended the 2024 CRADLE Symposium on Generative Artificial Intelligence and Work-Integrated Learning. The guide is intended to support students, university WIL practitioners and educators, and industry or community partners who host students for WIL experiences, in navigating the tricky and ever-evolving landscape of GenAI use across learning and professional work.
The team (Bonnie Dean, Jack Walton, Kelli Nicola-Richmond, Dave Cormier, and myself) met many times in the past few months to work out firstly what type of resource could be most useful across the many varied WIL settings (from project to placement and everything in between), and then to settle on the details.
We have developed separate but linked student-facing, university-facing, and industry-facing resources to account for the different priorities and perspectives, and a set of examples for how it might be used.
We also very quickly realised that we couldn’t provide specific advice on precisely what should be done, given the different contexts and regulatory environments that WIL might occur in. Therefore, the majority of the resource comprises reflective questions which are designed to get people to think about the implications for their own situation and context. To ensure that we were hitting the mark, we invited symposium guests, colleagues across institutions and workplaces, and students, to offer feedback and comments on the guides. The biggest suggestion for change was around length and the need for explicit discipline-focussed examples, as colleagues quickly saw the need for implementation of these ideas. However, we realised there wouldn’t be a sweet spot that would satisfy everyone, and therefore we needed to ensure this general resource was applicable across contexts, and disciplines. Therefore, we want to highlight the possibility for adaptation, customization, and re-use as you all see fit: they are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 licence.
The set of resources is now freely available via the CRADLE blog site, both in a complete set, and individually for ease of distribution. We are planning a formal launch event in late April with WIL Australia, where you’ll get to hear more about the guide and the thinking that went into it. We will share the details with you as soon as they are available, but in the meantime, check the guides out and let us know how you go with them!
Download the guide here
(PDF, 2MB)
Download the complete guide here, or download the individual components. Or visit our Guides page on our blog site.
Other Resources
CRADLE has developed many free-to-use resources based on our research. Find them on our Resources page or access them below:
