scholarly journals From Classroom to Boardroom: How International Marketing Students Earn Their Way to Experiential Learning Opportunities, and the Case of the “Beyond Borders of a Classroom” Program

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Charlebois
Curationis ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.C.D. Wright ◽  
I. Benninghoff

Teaching research to undergraduates has its own challenges and involving undergraduates in research practical experience is just one of those challenges. As nursing students are in the process of becoming professional nurses, knowledge and skills in research are specific outcomes of the curriculum. One of the outcomes of the B Tech Nursing Science programme offered by the Tshwane University of Technology states that for the baccalaurcate nursing programme include analysis, interpretation and utilisation of a range of research findings in scientific nursing and midwifery care as well as the development of a research protocol in a given context. In an effort to ensure that students would experience research as an essential part of their daily activities, an integrated approach is suggested whereby the nursing experiential learning opportunities are also research experiential learning opportunities. Using the integration strategy, research theory come ‘alive’ for the students. The integration approach is uncomplicated and transferable to any other discipline. The case study presented is the second year nursing students using school nursing experiential learning as a research project. The second year nursing students have a community focus during their second year and one of the experiential learning opportunities is school health nursing in a primary school in Tshwane. The results of the school health survey are presented. The students developed a health education intervention based on the research results.


2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Kiran Cunningham ◽  
Jayne Howell ◽  
Ronald Loewe

Conversations about how to create meaningful and significant experiential learning opportunities for students in international and intercultural contexts are increasingly commonplace in academic institutions. With over a century dedicated to the development and refinement of a powerful set of methodological, attitudinal, conceptual, and theoretical tools for cross-cultural understanding and engagement, anthropology has much to offer these conversations. Contributors to this issue of Practicing Anthropology draw on their experiences directing international offices, directing offices and study abroad programs, leading internationalization initiatives, establishing service learning programs, running international and intercultural field schools, and developing intercultural learning assessment instruments. They all interrogate teaching and learning outcomes, exploring the ways that the theories and methods of anthropology have been effective in enhancing intercultural learning and offering models and methodologies that others can use in their own work. The first four articles in the issue were individually submitted, and were ideal complements to the six articles Kiran Cunningham compiled.


2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (01) ◽  
pp. 132-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
John David Gerlach ◽  
Tyler P. Reinagel

ABSTRACTExperiential learning is a growing practice in higher education today. Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs use experiential learning to expose students to application and reinforcement of academic theories and concepts. This most often is accomplished through a required internship. This article argues for the addition of service learning requirements to MPA curricula. A complementary relationship between internship and service learning requirements yields four primary benefits: (1) further involvement of pre-service and in-service students in experiential-learning activities; (2) additional exposure to real-life application of course concepts; (3) better and more targeted classroom reinforcement mechanisms; and (4) additional community benefit. Complementarity between internship and service learning requirements allows the best of each experiential-learning approach to augment the other. We contend that this produces better-prepared MPA graduates by exposing them to a more diverse set of immersive learning opportunities and application scenarios.


Author(s):  
Keith Hurdelbrink ◽  
Bobby Doyle ◽  
David Collins ◽  
Nic N. Evans ◽  
Paul A. Hatch ◽  
...  

Engineering educators and practitioners have suggested that collaborative-competitive team design events promote innovation. These competitions are popular, and they attract sponsors and participants. Beyond being popular, they are believed to provide rich learning opportunities for students. In this paper we present a peer-to-peer learning environment for student centered learning to have a more appropriate mix of theory and experience (hands-on activities) to provide a complete experiential learning environment for collaborative-competitive student design teams. A student-taught seminar course on designing an FSAE vehicle is being offered to new members of the team to address issues in collaborative-competitive student design teams, which addresses the concrete experience and active experimentation element of the experiential model, but has deficiencies in the reflective observation and abstract conceptualization elements of the cycle. In this paper we will present the structure of the seminar course and how it tries to support and enhance the experiential learning in the FSAE team.


2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 00031
Author(s):  
Malak Bouhazzama ◽  
Said Mssassi

In this study, the goal is to explore the impact of Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) and different experiential approaches on learning about sustainable development in environmental experiential learning education. Teachers were involved in participation with students to enhance their understanding of the importance of environment, developing their aptitude to combine theory and practice, also expanding their global vision. In order to accomplish this project with original learning opportunities, qualitative data of thirty participators was collected and revealed important issues in terms of pedagogical methodology in applying this theory. Overall, this paper shows the great capacity of learners to identify their styles and modes of learning and to expand them in all disciplines and fields even in their personal usual or professional life in the future and proposes global innovations in Moroccan environmental education.


2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
Katryna Johnson

Educators can provide opportunities for active learning for the students by engaging them in client-based projects with the community, which enhances application of theory and provides students with the relevance demanded from the business community. Experiential learning opportunities through client-based projects provide for such an experience. Students in a graduate research methods class worked in teams to conduct a SWOT analysis for a local non-profit organization. This paper discusses the use of cooperative learning teams to engage in experiential learning with a non-profit.


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