Thank you for registering your attendance for the 'How do we understand 'Effectiveness' in Experiential Learning?' Day, we look forward to welcoming you to the Dyson Institute's Campus.
We envisage the day as follows:
10am – 10.30am Welcome and Coffee
10.30am – 11.30am Keynote – Professor Colin Beard, Emeritus Professor of Experiential Learning at Sheffield Hallam University. Co-founder of the Experiential Learning Design Institute, Hong Kong
The keynote speech will introduce seven of the most important human capacities for learning and will outline how these capacities can be utilised for learning. Learning design principles also offer value directly to students so they themselves can maximise their learning. Colin will introduce concepts such as the ‘diamond and the egg timer’, the notion of everything having a ‘beginning, middle and end’, and the idea of ‘learning route maps’. These principles raise the consciousness, awareness, and noticing of the learning processes. Finally, the speech will present a provocation that will guide the rest of the day’s activities: how the idea ‘making learning visible’ can catalyse a change in assessment and evaluation, from a purely cognitive to a more holistic and robust evaluation of experiential learning.
11.30am – 12.20pm Case Study 1: TBC
12.20pm – 1.20pm Case Study 2: Dyson Institute (student-led)
1.20pm – 2pm Lunch
2.00pm Facilitated Research Sandpit
Towards a shared and personal research agenda
4.30pm Close
Participants will leave having been challenged to develop a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of experiential learning, with a framework through which to design and/or evaluate effective experiences, new research/evaluation ideas, and an action plan for their personal research agenda in this space.
After the event, presentations and material will be archived by the Institute of Experiential and Skills Based Learning at https://iesbl.substack.com
Further event information will be sent closer to the event date. An accessibility statement will be sent to all registered participants ahead of the event. If you would like to review this sooner in order to inform your decision-making, please get in touch. If you can no longer attend, please contact Events@dysonInstitute.ac.uk
