Work-ready wiki: Supporting the learning and teaching of professional graduate attributes. In Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology

The paper presents the background, design and formative evaluation of a wiki of work-ready learning activities and teaching support resources to improve the learning of professional graduate attributes. The ‘Improving graduate work-readiness ’ project is a University of Technology Sydney curriculum renewal project involving five Faculties. The project aims to improve graduates ’ professional attributes and employability skills by designing new subjects, new subject modules and integrating short well-designed contextualised work-ready learning activities into existing subjects. The authors inquired of relevant professional societies their understandings of the key professional attributes required of a graduate in the contemporary workplace. These findings informed the design of a matrix of 11 professional attributes and associated sub-attributes and aligned understandings and skills that can be learnt. The work-ready wiki gives access to a matrix of generic work-ready learning activities and 16 matrixes of learning activities contextualised for each professional area of study involved in the project to-date. Work-ready activities contextualised for each profession maximises student relevance and motivation to learn. Maximising the ease of integration of work-ready activities into existing subjects has guided the design of the wiki-based learning activities. From the wiki practical teaching support resources can be downloaded to enable easier integration of the work-ready learning activities. The beginning of collections of work-ready learning activities can be found at <wiki.it.uts.edu.au/workready>