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Internships offer students opportunities to apply what they learn from the classroom into real-world situations (Fisher, 2017), and play a critical role in cultivating students’ professional success.

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Chu, S. (2020). Introduction. In: Social Media Tools in Experiential Internship Learning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1560-6_1

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