EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: TOOL FOR JOYFUL LEARNING

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 for Engineering Education

This paper presents elements of the experiential learning in engineering education through a real-life project case. The project included a team of university students from Hong Kong traveling to Sichuan, China and implementing various engineering systems from solar energy to e-learning systems for a reconstructed school in Sichuan, which was destroyed by the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008. So...

Learning by Design: Constructing Experiential Learning Programs

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...