Cooperative education is based upon the concept of integration of academic learning from the university with that gained from experiences in the workplace. Through the cooperative education experience, when the two different environments become integrated, it provides opportunities for legacies to be created (Billett, 2009). Yet, the workplace can be viewed as a social environment and provides a context for learning that is very different from that provided within a university (Hughes, 1998). While learning is not the fundamental aim of most workplaces it is through participating in the authentic activities of the host organization that students can learn in different ways and gain access to different types of knowledge. In order to be able to better prepare students for their cooperative education experience it is important to understand more about learning in the context of the workplace.