WIL Skills Community at RMIT

Rapidly growing valuable connections

RMIT has about 50 staff across 23 Schools who coordinate Work Integrated Learning (WIL). These ‘WIL Practitioners’ connect RMIT to over 5,000 industry partners who are currently registered in the WIL system.

The WIL Skills Google+Community is where RMIT WIL Practitioners connect with each other to share ideas, opportunities and support one another to meet the challenges of building industry relationships, finding placements for students, navigating the regulatory processes and learning how to use the new WIL Software we are rolling out.

Benefits of using Google+ Communities

We use a Google+ Community to rapidly build engagement between the project team and the dispersed WIL Champions. We find most people either are familiar with Google+ Communities or otherwise quickly become confident. Early adopters help ‘newbies’ to learn how to get the most out of the tool and this in turn engenders a stronger sense of community and connectedness. We have experimented with different engagement techniques along the way, keeping what works and leaving behind what doesn’t.

Analysis of the activity by members of WIL Skills indicate the following benefits:  

• provides a central forum for WIL Champions, Practitioners, and other staff members with an interest in work integrated learning, to communicate and share best practices
• provides greater visibility to content and discussions shared in the community
• allows people to easily connect with WIL Practitioners across all RMIT schools and disciplines
• encourages members to build networks and share WIL opportunities and industry connections
• encourages people to seek help or advice from WIL experts and answer each others questions
• facilitates collaboration and sharing of knowledge on WIL business processes and InPlace system functionality

Come and find out more?

Any staff with an RMIT gmail account are welcome to join.

Here is the location of the Community - you will need to ask for access when you get there but we have an open door for people who want to find out about the community...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117494846982431685544