Experiential Learning with Experiments

Experiential Learning with Experiments

This paper discusses the implementation of experiential learning techniques in a behavioural economics class. In order to deepen students’ understanding of both behavioural economics and the experimental approach to research students in the course developed and conducted variants of economic experiments.We believe that the process of designing and implementing the experiments fostered a better ...

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 in teams

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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...

Experiential learning as a method to enhance experiential teaching