Experiential learning at Lean-Thinking-Learning Space

The Impact of Lean Thinking on Organizational Learning

Lean management and organizational learning have been seen as two driving forces for today’s business’ success by contributing to competitive advantage in organizations. The aim of this paper is to explore and assess the implementation of lean from the perspective of organizational learning. By revisiting the lean concept and the relationship between lean and learning, we argue that lean has be...

Learning by Design: Constructing Experiential Learning Programs

Patterns for Experiential Learning

ION GRAVITY – FROM HIGH TO LOW This pattern is based on Gary L. Craig’s Discussion-Activity-Review-Lab-Review [GLC] pattern and was revised by Jane Chandler. You are about to start a new topic, which is has many levels of abstraction.

Experiential learning in teams

ConceptualizationReflectiveObservationActiveExperimentationAccommodatingDiverging ConvergingAssimilating

What Is Experiential Learning?

Others have cited Sophocles’ quote from 400 B.C., “One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it-you have no certainty, until you try.” Or, one could quote George Santayana, “The great difficulty of education is to get experience out of ideas.” It is hard to argue that experience will not lead to learning under the right conditions. However, it will be argued that the resu...