This article highlights the innovative experiential learning used by an online RN-to-BSN program through the use of simulation that takes place in an online classroom. Three experiential learning activities using a virtual community are described. These learning activities engage the students in thinking about social justice and health policy, as well as teaching concepts that include community...

Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm and the experiential learning literature, this paper develops and tests a theory on how firms learn to cope with the strains of activity load. We first empirically test the impact of activity load on the performance of a focal activity. We then study how this relationship is moderated by four dimensions of experiential learning: stock, homogeneity...

Graduates of undergraduate Information Technology (IT) programs should have skills desired by regional businesses. Educating the next generation of IT professionals is a continuing challenge. In the IT program at a southeastern United States university, we are exploring ways to integrate real world experiences into the curriculum and allow students to develop relationships with each other as we...

Although prior research on experiential learning has focused on identifying developmental experience, it has paid little attention to the effect of career stage and ability to learn from experience. The purposes of this research were to examine developmental experience at different career stages and to clarify the role of work-related beliefs in promoting experiential learning. By applying the ...

BACKGROUND Although nursing education aims to equip nursing students to provide care to dying patients and their families, nurses often feel ill-prepared to cope with the emotional labour involved in end-of-life care. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to explore and describe nursing students' experiences of end-of-life care through experiential learning within a constructivist educational m...

Learning can be both fun and effective when a complex concept is distilled to a laughably simple analog. If sufficiently silly, the analog will lend itself to repeated discussion in follow-up conversations, propagating its educational value well beyond the initial presentation. Another effective tool is experiential learning, about which much has been written elsewhere. The combination of these...

Background: Human beings use different approaches to learning. Thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. Methods: This qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. The data were collected using se...

The purpose of this study was to determine the methods of experiential assessment in use at a Canadian university and the extent to which they are used. Exploring experiential assessment will allow identification of commonly used methods and facilitate the development of best practices of assessment in the context of experiential learning (EL) at an institutional level. The origins of EL are fo...