Role playing as experiential learning method for quality engineering education

Experiential learning for Engineering Education

This paper presents elements of the experiential learning in engineering education through a real-life project case. The project included a team of university students from Hong Kong traveling to Sichuan, China and implementing various engineering systems from solar energy to e-learning systems for a reconstructed school in Sichuan, which was destroyed by the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008. So...

Experiential learning as a method to enhance experiential teaching

Running Head: Experiential learning critics Experiential Learning and Its Critics: Preserving the Role of Experience in Management Learning and Education

This paper considers John Dewey’s dual reformist-preservationist agenda for education in the context of current debates about the role of experience in management learning. The paper argues for preserving experience-based approaches to management learning by revising the concept of experience to more clearly account for the relationship between personal and social (i.e. , tacit/explicit) knowle...

Experiential Motives for Playing Online Games

Online games represent a burgeoning market sector of increasing economic importance. The distinctive entertainment-oriented features of such games provide various experiential values for users. However, most previous studies have focused on the utilitarian perspectives of the technology. The affective motivational aspects of entertainment technologies have been relatively neglected. The present...

Rethinking experiential learning in marketing education

Experiential learning is “effective learning resulting from active student involvement with an experience and subsequent reflection on that experience” (Camarero, Rodriguez, & San José, 2010:84). Techniques of experiential learning have been extensively used and studied in the context of marketing education, and constitute one of the most thoroughly investigated topics in marketing education re...