The Learning Experiences and Preferences of Tourism Postgraduate Students
Author(s)
Ruhanen, Lisa
McLennan, Char-lee
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2012
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Set within the context of increasingly internationalized student cohorts, this article presents the findings of a study undertaken with a cohort of postgraduate tourism students to identify: (1) students' preferred learning activities (as opposed to learning styles) and (2) students' desired and/or expected skills and experiences that will result from undertaking a postgraduate tourism degree. Based on the findings of a survey undertaken with 101 tourism postgraduate students from the University of Queensland in Australia, the purpose of this article is to share the findings with other tourism educators and practitioners who ...
View more >Set within the context of increasingly internationalized student cohorts, this article presents the findings of a study undertaken with a cohort of postgraduate tourism students to identify: (1) students' preferred learning activities (as opposed to learning styles) and (2) students' desired and/or expected skills and experiences that will result from undertaking a postgraduate tourism degree. Based on the findings of a survey undertaken with 101 tourism postgraduate students from the University of Queensland in Australia, the purpose of this article is to share the findings with other tourism educators and practitioners who may also be seeking to better understand the learning needs and expectations of their tourism postgraduate students.
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View more >Set within the context of increasingly internationalized student cohorts, this article presents the findings of a study undertaken with a cohort of postgraduate tourism students to identify: (1) students' preferred learning activities (as opposed to learning styles) and (2) students' desired and/or expected skills and experiences that will result from undertaking a postgraduate tourism degree. Based on the findings of a survey undertaken with 101 tourism postgraduate students from the University of Queensland in Australia, the purpose of this article is to share the findings with other tourism educators and practitioners who may also be seeking to better understand the learning needs and expectations of their tourism postgraduate students.
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Journal Title
Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism
Volume
12
Issue
2
Subject
Curriculum and pedagogy
Specialist studies in education
Tourism
Tourism not elsewhere classified