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Brown, J. Allen – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
This study explores the creation of an experiential learning exercise (ELE) to simulate a generic operations management scenario. Through the case study, students are provided the opportunity to gain tacit understanding of learning curves by doing tasks and observing tasks. The students' tacit understanding is captured through learning rates. The…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Business Administration Education, Business Administration, Learning Activities
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Lesley G. Campbell; Benjamin R. Montgomery; Megan R. King; Jonathan Hall; Lena Struwe – American Biology Teacher, 2025
Exposure to nature can improve mental health and cognitive abilities, while creating enhanced engagement with biological course material through interactions with organisms and ecosystems. Remote biology education was suddenly implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic at many universities, and such distance education continues to provide broadened…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Biology, Science Education, Safety
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Maria Alejandra Quijada; Tim O. Peterson; Claudette Peterson – Management Teaching Review, 2024
Teaching leadership presents a challenge as students come into the topic with underlying assumptions of what makes for a good or bad leader. The experiential exercise described here brings together the worlds of leadership and art to elicit the students' implicit leadership theories. We have students look at works of art and relate them to their…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership Styles, Theories, Painting (Visual Arts)
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Lyn Denend; Susie Spielman; Ross Venook; Ravinder D. Pamnani; David Camarillo; James Wall; Joseph Towles – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2023
Many undergraduate educational experiences in biomedical design lack clinical immersion-based needs finding training for students. Convinced of the merits of this type of training for undergraduates, but unable to offer a quarter-long course due to faculty and administrative constraints, we developed an accelerated block-plan course, during which…
Descriptors: Innovation, Educational Experience, Undergraduate Students, Skill Development
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Yunus Emre Avcu; Yavuz Yaman – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2024
A differentiated science activity was created for gifted students. The focus is on Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG-15) for life on land, enhancing engagement, self-regulated learning skills, and scientific creativity in gifted students. The activity spanned eight lesson hours, with tasks encouraging observation, inquiry, and creative…
Descriptors: Gifted, Individualized Instruction, Science Instruction, Computer Simulation
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Foti, Francesca; Menghini, Deny; Alfieri, Paolo; Costanzo, Floriana; Mandolesi, Laura; Petrosini, Laura; Vicari, Stefano – Developmental Science, 2018
New skills may be learned by active experience (experiential learning or learning by doing) or by observation of others' experience (learning by observation). In general, learning by observation reduces the time and the attempts needed to learn complex actions and behaviors. The present research aimed to compare learning by observation and…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Genetic Disorders, Psychomotor Skills, Visual Perception
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Mary Anne Peabody; Susan Noyes; Mary Anderson – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
Reflective practice is considered a highly valued graduate attribute in the field of occupational therapy. Occupational therapy educators influence and shape how students develop into reflective practitioners. Reflective practice requires a set of complex thinking skills that are typically focused on personal experiences and can be broken down…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Graduate Students, College Faculty, Reflection
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Shauki, Elvia R.; Benzie, Helen – Accounting Education, 2017
This study explores the development of student self-management skills through an oral presentation task. It is motivated by the challenge to maintain consistent quality in students' oral skills and to incorporate national accounting curriculum requirements for threshold learning standards into an accounting subject. The study has been conducted in…
Descriptors: Self Management, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
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Su, Yuling – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Field experience makes a strong contribution to the learning of students. However, the procedure for conducting training sessions based on experiential teaching methods is relatively unclear, and the contents and aspects of students' reflections during such training are not well known. This study applied experiential teaching methods in a college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Experiential Learning, Reflection
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Schechter, Chen; Firuz, Florit – School Leadership & Management, 2015
The study focused on how principal mentors perceived the mentoring process by means of the metaphors they used to represent it. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 principal mentors. Findings were analysed qualitatively, generating themes as an inductive process, grounded in the various metaphors articulated by participants.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Principals, Figurative Language, Semi Structured Interviews
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Mazerolle, Stephanie M.; Bowman, Thomas G.; Benes, Sarah S. – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2015
Context: Clinical experiences help athletic training students gain real-time learning experiences by engaging in patient care. Observational learning has been identified as important to athletic training student development, yet little is known about its effectiveness. Objective: To explore the athletic training students' perspectives on their…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Athletics, Allied Health Occupations Education, Observational Learning
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van der Meij, Marjoleine G.; Kupper, Frank; Beers, Pieter J.; Broerse, Jacqueline E. W. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
E-learning and storytelling approaches can support informal vicarious learning within geographically widely distributed multi-stakeholder collaboration networks. This case study evaluates hybrid e-learning and video-storytelling approach "TransLearning" by investigation into how its storytelling e-tool supported informal vicarious…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Story Telling
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Menghini, Deny; Vicari, Stefano; Mandolesi, Laura; Petrosini, Laura – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Numerous studies have shown that imitating observed actions belongs to the same category of processes involved in planning and executing actions. New competencies may be acquired by actually executing a task or by executing a task after having seen how to do it. The performance of thirty dyslexic children was compared with that of an age- and…
Descriptors: Children, Dyslexia, Observational Learning, Experiential Learning
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Slim-Topdjian, Lina; Pinto Zipp, Genevieve – Global Education Review, 2016
The increased prevalence of autism has created an increased challenge for teachers to incorporate specialized teaching strategies to address the unique educational and behavioral challenges facing children diagnosed with autism. Providing teachers with educational training opportunities will promote such learning. In the academic world,…
Descriptors: Autism, Teaching Methods, On the Job Training, Video Technology
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De Grez, Luc; Valcke, Martin; Roozen, Irene – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
The present study focuses on the design and evaluation of an innovative instructional approach to developing oral presentation skills. The intervention builds on the observational learning theoretical perspective. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional training and practice approach. Two sequencing approaches--learners starting with…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Experiential Learning, Skill Development, Public Speaking
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