Thank you for participating in this survey.  The results will help inform new professional development opportunities in work-integrated learning (WIL; cooperative education, work placements, internships, sandwich courses, work-based projects, etc), and outcomes will be shared with the participating national associations conferences and at the WACE International conference.

The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete.  Your participation is anonymous, we will not be able to identify you.  By submitting the survey you provide us permission to use your responses.  You are free to withdraw at any point of the survey, however, after the survey has been submitted you will not be able to withdraw your responses as we will not be able to identify which dataset belongs to you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Karsten Zegwaard (karsten.zegwaard@waikato.ac.nz).

We thank you in advance.  We value hearing your views and appreciate your time.

Yours sincerely

Karsten Zegwaard and Katharine Hoskyn (WILNZ, New Zealand), Kristina Johansson (VILAR, Sweden), Judie Kay and Sonia Ferns (ACEN, Australia), and Norah McRae (CEWIL, Canada).

(this survey has ethical approval from the University of Waikato, NZ, #FSEN-20-17-8)

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* 1. Gender:

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* 2. What is your age?

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* 3. In what country do you live?

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* 4. What best describes your current employment?
(tick as many as appropriate)

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* 5. Are you employed:

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* 6. What best describes your highest level of qualification?

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* 7. What best describes your place of work?

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* 8. Did you begin your professional career in a position related to WIL?

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* 9. How many years have you been involved with WIL?

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* 10. Do you have any formal qualifications in educational studies?

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* 11. Do you have a mentor or a peer-support group knowledgeable in WIL?

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* 12. Does your country have a national (or cross-national) WIL association?

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* 13. If your country has a national/cross-national association, do they offer professional development opportunities in WIL?

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* 14. Aside from conferences, have you had professional development specific to WIL before?

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* 15. How supportive do you feel your workplace would be of you undertaking professional development in WIL?

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* 16. To what extent do you feel you need professional development in WIL?

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* 17. To what extent do you have easy access to WIL professional development opportunities?

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* 18. Would you be interested in completing a certificate in 'WIL professional practice'?

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* 19. Have you completed one or more of the Global WIL modules? (https://globalwil.org/) 

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* 20. What has been the impact of COVID-19 on your WIL practice?

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* 21. Has COVID-19 changed your WIL professional development needs?

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* 22. In what way(s) has COVID-19 changed your professional development situation (v2)?   Select as many as apply

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* 23. Please indicate which topic(s) would interest you for professional development
(tick as many as you like - the next question will ask you to pick your top three)

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* 24. Out of the same list above, please indicate your top three topic preferences
(tick ONLY THREE)

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* 25. Thinking about the delivery format of a professional development opportunity, what would work best for you in your current work context?  
(tick as many as you want)

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* 26. Thinking about the time commitment, what would work best for you?
(tick no more than two)

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* 27. Do you have any other comments about professional development needs in WIL?

When you have completed the survey, please select the 'Submit Survey' button.

Thank you for completing the survey, we greatly appreciate you sharing your views!

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