#experiential-learning

#experiential-learning

Employers emphasize skills learned in higher education over content, highlighting the need for students to adapt and respond to the evolving workplace. This shift often derives from degree inflation and the adjusting requirements of jobs that necessitate postsecondary education.

Experiential learning is a student-centered approach that emphasizes learning through doing. Instead of passively receiving information, learners actively engage in realistic tasks, reflect on their actions, and adapt their strategies.

For example, although my kids learned about the Holocaust in school, visiting museums and gas chambers in Auschwitz elevated their understanding of it and taught them even more about the horrific genocide.

My daughter Elizabeth is here with me...She grew up hearing tales and seeing pictures of my trips to Bangladesh, always asking, 'So when are you going to take me?'