10 tips for building a well-developed online career course
Let’s move the course online. How many times have you heard that? Prior to COVID-19, online course development was a bit taboo – moving courses online required time and planning....
A story of land-based learning: Immersive camp builds student skills, confidence
Land-based learning takes the classroom out onto the land, creating experiential learning opportunities that focus on practical skills development and transformative understandings of the natural world. This is not a...
Helping students connect to the three worlds during their COVID-19 job search
Uncertainty has always been part of career planning, but this has become a much greater and more immediate challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a Career Counsellor in a university...
CERIC announces award of project to examine foundational skills in Grades 4-6
CERIC’s Career Development in Children: Identifying Critical Success Conditions and Strategies project has been awarded to an international team of academic researchers led by Dr Lorraine Godden, Ironwood Consulting and Carleton University;...
COVID-19 reveals opportunities and challenges in online learning
With nearly 70% of students being affected by the COVID-19 crisis worldwide, education looks very different than it did at the beginning of 2020. In Canada alone, over 6.6 million...
Work-integrated learning can boost innovation and help us face COVID-19
Work-integrated learning has always been a critical component of college education, but like many activities around the world, it has largely been put on hold as social-distancing measures came into...
How COVID-19 is transforming post-secondary recruitment
COVID-19 has compelled all educational institutions to adapt rapidly when recruiting new students and creating relationships with program applicants. While the digital landscape has been important in post-secondary recruiting for...
We need to provide students with space for self-reflection
Self-reflection has always been a cornerstone of career counselling and development but never has it been as critical as it is now. COVID-19 has changed our world. Our daily lives have been uprooted. We have...
CERIC releases new edition of French guide to computing careers for students and advisors
CERIC has released an updated version of its French-language guide to computing careers, responding to strong demand for computing graduates in Canada and a changing technology landscape. Authored by Randy...
SRDC report explores literature on when, where and how youth make career decisions
A report prepared by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation as part of a CERIC-supported research project, titled The role of career education on students’ education choices and postsecondary outcomes:...