Experiential learning involves acquiring skills and expertise through doing and experiencing things. The process involves having an experience, reflecting on it, concluding what was learned, and planning how to apply what was learned. Experiential learning principles emphasize reflection, analysis, and actively engaging students in posing questions and problem-solving. The teacher acts as a facilitator, while students take initiative and responsibility for their learning through hands-on experiences. Experiential learning helps develop leadership skills, makes knowledge easier to transfer, and increases student motivation to learn.

1. Experiential Learning
Aleira Espinoza

2. What is it?
 The process of acquiring skills and expertise by doing things, such as learning through actions,
learning through experience, and discovery and exploration.

3. The Process
1) Doing or having an
experience
2) Reviewing or Reflecting on
the experience
3) Concluding and learning
from the experience
4) Planning and trying out
what you have learned

4. Principles
 Experiential learning occurs when carefully chosen experiences are supported by reflection, critical
analysis and synthesis
 Experiences are structured to require the student to take initiative, make decisions and be
accountable for results.
 Throughout the experiential learning process, the student is actively engaged in posing questions,
investigating, experimenting, being curious, solving problems, assuming responsibility, being
creative and constructing meaning.
 Students are engaged intellectually, emotionally, socially, soulfully and/or physically. This
involvement produces a perception that the learning task is authentic.

5. Roles
 Teacher:
 the instructor guides rather than directs the
learning process where students are naturally
interested in learning. The instructor assumes
the role of facilitator and is guided by a
number of steps crucial to experiential
learning
 Student:
 Qualities of experiential learning are those in
which students decide themselves to be
personally involved in the learning experience
(students are actively participating in their
own learning and have a personal role in the
direction of learning). Students are not
completely left to teach themselves; however,
the instructor assumes the role of guide and
facilitates the learning process.

6. Advantages
 Students develop leadership capabilities to a significant level
 Easy to transfer knowledge and skills
 Motivation to learn

7. Conclusion
 Experiential learning takes place when learners gain knowledge through their reflections based on
daily experiences.
 Students learn through student- rather than instructor-centered experiences by doing, discovering,
reflecting and applying.