WHAT IS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING?

Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience, i.e, "Learning from Experience". The experience can be staged or left open. Aristotle once said, "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them"

This direct experiential encounter with a learning event requires active engagement of the student as opposed to passive engagement commonly associated with teacher directed instruction that generally results in minimal student interaction in the learning process.

The second context of experiential learning described in the literature addresses students‘ reflection on direct participation and direct encounters within the events of everyday life

(a)   Learning is best conceived as a process, not in terms of outcomes. To improve learning in higher education, the primary focus should be on engaging students in a process that best enhances their learning a process that includes feedback on the effectiveness of their learning efforts

(b)  Facilitated by a process that draws out the students‘ beliefs and ideas about a topic so that they can be examined, tested, and integrated with new, more refined ideas.

(c)   Learning requires the resolution of conflicts between dialectical opposed modes of adaptation to the world. Conflict, differences, and disagreement are what drive the learning process.

        Photo above shows the cycle of Experiential Learning (Layman Terms)

Doing-   Through individual/ group experience through              hands on practice

Sharing- Individual/Group will share about their experience        (Positive and Negative) with each other

Reflect-  After sharing, we think through our mind on the          experience others share.

 Learn-   Then, we learn through the experience to                     improve.