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Experiential Education: BYU 2019

Experiential education emphasizes hands-on, integrative learning approaches that connect classroom theory with real-world application. This method is particularly significant in today'

Experiential Education: BYU 2019

Experiential Education in The College Context Jay Roberts, Ph.D. Earlham College

Defining Experiential Education

What is Experiential Education?
Ecosystem of Experiential Education

The Fruits

Place-Based Learning

Game-Based Learning

Work-Integrated Learning

Community-Engaged Learning

Inquiry-Based Learning

Cooperative Learning

Service Learning

The Roots

Key Principles

4. INTEGRATED

Experiential learning occurs when carefully chosen experiences are supported by reflection, critical analysis and synthesis.

3. AUTHENTIC

Experiences are structured to require the learner to take initiative, make decisions, experience natural consequences, and be accountable for results.

2. STUDENT CENTERED

Throughout the educational process, the learner is actively engaged in posing questions, investigating, experimenting, being curious, solving problems, assuming responsibility, being creative, and constructing meaning.

1. UNSCRIPTED

The educator and learner may experience success, failure, adventure, risk-taking and uncertainty, because the outcomes of experience cannot totally be predicted.

Experiential education is a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection.
The Experiential Learning Cycle

You can't lecture in experiential education

Experiential education is just learning by doing

Experiential education is only applicable in applied fields

Experiential education involves being active with your body in some way

Experiential education has to be outside the classroom

4 Core Methodologies

Team Magic Bus
Problem-Based Learning
Integrative Learning
Community-Based Learning
Active Learning
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Experiential Education: Why It Matters in a World of Seismic Disruption

3. Epistemological Disruptors
Disrupting Ourselves

"These pressures are disruptive because to this point we have funded and structured our institutions as if the formal curriculum were the center of learning, whereas we have supported the experiential co-curriculum (and a handful of anomalous courses, such as first-year seminars) largely on the margins, even as they often serve as the poster children for the institutions’ sense of mission, values, and brand. All of us in higher education need to ask ourselves: Can we continue to operate on the assumption that the formal curriculum is the center of the undergraduate experience?" (Bass, 2012)

"By using the phrase “disrupting ourselves” ... I am asserting that one key source of disruption in higher education is coming not from the outside but from our own practices, from the growing body of experiential modes of learning, moving from margin to center, and proving to be critical and powerful in the overall quality and meaning of the undergraduate experience. As a result, at colleges and universities we are running headlong into our own structures, into the way we do business." (Bass, 2012)

Generation "Z"

Ages 5-18

More efficient, more inexpensive, more career aligned

"Likes"

Personal connections

Small class sizes

Professional opportunity

Real world experience

Hands-on learning

"Liberal Arts"

Wicked Problems

Time stress

Uncertain, unclear data

High potential for unforeseen consequences

Dispersed responsibility and power

Contested and Complex

Unscripted

American Academy for the Advancement of Science: “As biology faculty, we need to put the “depth versus breadth” debate behind us. It is true today, and will be even more so in the future, that faculty cannot pack everything known in the life sciences into one or two survey courses. The advances and breakthroughs in the understanding of living systems cannot be covered in a classroom or a textbook. They cannot even be covered in the curriculum of life sciences majors. The time has come for all biology faculty, but particularly those of us who teach undergraduates, to change the way we think about teaching..." (2009)
Neuroscience of Learning

Unpredictability

Misconceptions

Metacognition

Social

Reflection

Patterns

Emotion

2. Technological Disruptors
Facebook Story: if someone from the 1950's suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them about life today?

I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to humankind.

And I use it to look at funny videos of cats

The University of Nowhere

‘Place-based colleges’ are good for parties, but are becoming less crucial for learning thanks to the Internet, said the Microsoft founder Bill Gates at a conference on Friday. Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university,” he argued at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Calif. “College, except for the parties, needs to be less place-based.” from: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/bill-gates-predicts-technology-will-make-place-based-colleges-less-important-in-5-years/26092

The World Wide Web

MOOC's!

Data->Information->Knowledge->Wisdom

1993 All web pages could fit on 1 8X12 page

End of that same year. 10,000 web pages

1. Pedagogical Disruptors
Gallup Poll "Big 6"

3% agreed to all 6.

6. Extremely active in extracurricular activities and organizations

5. Internship or job that allowed me to apply my learning

4. Work on a project that took a semester or more to complete

3. A mentor who helped me pursue my goals and dreams

2. Professors who cared about me as a person

1. A professor who excited me about learning

High Impact Learning Practices (AAC&U, 2008)

Immersion experiences

Diversity/global learning

Internships and project-based learning

Undergraduate research

Service learning, community based learning

Collaborative assignments and projects

Learning communities

Instruction vs Learning

Barr and Tagg

Christchurch Earthquake

Introductions and Overview

Overview
Discussion
Methodologies of Experiential Education
Definitions
Why Experiential Education and Why Now?
Introductions