UA seeks to empower students to be critical thinkers with the skills and confidence to meet real-world challenges. In order to do that, UA’s Learning in Action provides resources and opportunities for faculty and staff to learn to weave experiential learning opportunities, or ELOs, into teaching.
One of the resources Learning in Action offers is workshops such as the one held recently for faculty and staff of Culverhouse College of Commerce.
Workshop leader Dr. Jay Roberts, associate vice president for academic affairs and associate professor of education at Earlham College, is an experiential learning scholar. Workshop topics included the higher education disrupters such as a shift from instruction to learning, discoveries on how we learn, and an expansion of massive open online courses.
“Our commitment to providing high-quality experiential learning to all our students is one way we are addressing these higher education disrupters,” said Quoc Hoang, Culverhouse director of experiential learning.
Hoang’s primary role is to foster collaboration across faculty, staff, students and external partners to grow and sustain Culverhouse experiential learning offerings.
“Experiential learning includes extensive student-educator feedback and encouragement, and often gets students excited about learning,” Hoang said.
Learning in Action launched in 2015 and opportunities for expanding ELOs have grown each year.
“We have a strong foundation for continuing to build high-quality experiential learning opportunities here at UA,” said Dr. Heather Pleasants, director of Learning in Action.
To learn more about enhancing experiential learning resources and opportunities in the classroom, visit Learning in Action.