The Experience Industry on Campus
Growth Engineering Company 2018
Lewis and Williams define experiential learning as:“In its simplest form, experiential learning means learning from experience or learning by doing.Experiential education first immerses learners in an experience and then encourages reflection aboutthe experience to develop new skills, new attitudes, or new ways of thinking.” Lewis and Williams (1994)
Now THAT's a big class! 3,500 Chinese university students take the same lesson to prepare for graduate entrance examination. Williams (2016)
Are we seeing an end to the days of hundreds of students sitting in front of a single lecturer? Obviously the image of 3500 university students packed into a single lecture theater is an extreme. However, some of us do remember the days of being placed in a first or second year course with hundreds of other students. There are still lectures in larger universities that contain hundreds of students. It would be quite a feat to engage these students in an experiential learning process that is created and implemented...