Policy into Practice:EURAXESS Researcher Career Skills for Career Development PIPERS

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and

demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Helping researchers to pursue their professional ambitions:A workshop for staff assisting researchers’ development

21 – 22 June 2016WARSAW, POLAND

Experiencing Experiential Learning

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Learning“We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage to learn.

Educators can, however make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply.”

- Malcolm Knowles, Educator

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Learning Objectives[1] To help participants improve their skills and confidence in understanding the Experiential Learning Cycle and its benefits.

[2] To help participants incorporate the Experiential Learning Cycle into their future training programs.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Experiential Learning

Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing".

Hands-on learning is a form of experiential learning but does not necessarily involve students reflecting on their product.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

experience

publish/share

processgeneralize

applyExperiential

LearningCycle

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Please divide in groups of 2.

Imagine that you have to teach another group how to tie a shoe. Your task is to work together with your partner to outline a Lesson on Tying a Shoe.

You have 10 minutes to outline and practice your lesson before presenting it to another group.

experience

Experiential Learning

Cycle

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Now that you have outlined your lesson and have practiced presenting it, select the group closest to you and teach them to tie a shoe using your lesson.

After five minutes, switch roles.

experience

Experiential Learning

Cycle

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

SHARE: What happened? What did you notice? What were the difficulties?

Experiential Learning

Cycle

experience

publish / share

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

PROCESS: What were common themes and trends that emerged? Why did that happen?

Experiential Learning

Cycle

experience

publish / share

process

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

GENERALIZE: Does that happen in life? How can we use what we just learnt?

experience

publish / share

processgeneralize

Experiential Learning

Cycle

experience

publish / share

processgeneralize

applyExperiential

LearningCycle

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

APPLY: How would you change your shoe lesson knowing what you know now? What else would you do different now in your everyday life and work?

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

Experiential Learning CycleEXPERIENCING: The experience is what happens: an activity, event or discussion. PUBLISH/SHARE: Participants reflect on their own personal journey through that experience.PROCESS: Participants reflect on observations that other participants who shared the experience had, and consider impact on the group.GENERALIZE: Participants think about other times where they had similar feelings or observations and work to relate it to other aspects of their life.APPLY: Participants think about what they learned from the experience and how they can “apply” what they learned.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330

EXPERIENCE BECOMES LEARNING when it is pondered and reflected upon.

Questions?

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 643330