Posts Tagged ‘experiential learning’
April 21 - Six Steps to Designing Effective Service-Learning Courses
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
A biology class works with a local environmental organization to test water samples from the Chesapeake Bay. A graphics design class helps a non-profit organization build a new website. A childhood development class serves as mentors to at-risk students in an after-school program.
June 4 - General Education Programs Incorporate More Engaged, Integrative Learning Practices
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development
A survey released last month suggests that many colleges and universities are reforming their general education programs and developing new curricular approaches and educational assessment strategies for measuring key learning outcomes. As institutions review their general education programs, many are choosing to incorporate more engaged and integrative curricular practices.
March 4 - The ECHO Model of Experiential Learning
By: Jim La Prad and Andy Mink in Learning Styles, Teaching and Learning
As educators we hear and heed Peter McLaren’s warning, “You can’t teach people anything … You have to create a context in which they can analyze themselves and their social formations and lives.” 1 We believe the creation of this context must be our aim as educators, and this context must be balanced between theory
