Professional Development for Experiential Learning
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The Office of Experiential and Integrative Learning encourages all faculty and staff at the university to continue their professional and training for experiential learning and high-impact practices as the literature and research has demonsrated its efficacy in fostering key student development, retention, and success outcomes.
BSU's Institutional EL and HIPS Certification
The Office of Experiential & Integrative Learning and the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning will be collaborating together to design and facilitate a series of workshop for both faculty aand staff that will lead to a BSU Certification in Experiential Learning and High-Impact Practices. To be eligible for this certification, you must be a BSU faculty or staff member and have completed the following sequence of training workshops:
- Workshop 1: Introduction to Experiential Learning and High-Impact Practices (No Prerequisite Required)
- Workshop 2: Strategies for Facilitating and Assessing Experiential Learning (Prerequisite Required: Workshop 1)
- Workshop 3: Designing and Implementing a Course Plan or Program Plan for Experiential Learning (Prerequisite Required: Workshop 1 and 2)
- Workshop 4: Choose any workshop from the annual EL and HIPS Professional Development Series with Industry Experts coordinated through our partnership with PeopleGrove and Student Opportunity Center.
To register for an upcoming workshop, complete the Registration Form (not currently accepting registrations).
EL and HIPS Professional Development Series
The Office of Experiential and Integrative Learning has partnered with PeopleGrove and the Student Opportunity Center to annually offer a week long series of professional development discussions, presentations, and workshops for faculty and staff interested in experiential learning and high-impact practices.
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- April 3rd, 6th, and 12th 2023 - Experiential Learning and High-Impact Practices Professional Development Series (Registration Form; registration has now closed).
- EL/HIPs in the co-curriculum (Passcode: n!1nf36M)
- HIPs Assessment with Dr. George Kuh (Passcode: @3Hz^Wrl)
- EL & HIPs Tracking with VCU REAL (Passcode: E+*jj9Wj)
- Engaging Faculty in Course-Embedded PBL w SOC Module Walkthrough (Passcode: 4?5!YN2m)
- Engaging Faculty and Students in Experiential Ed/HIPs (Passcode: a@1ZgWiP)
Articles, Books, Journals, Websites, and More
The Office of Experiential and Intergrative Learning has curated resources on experiential learning for faculty and staff including articles, blooks, websites, and more. If you have a great resource, please let us know and we will review it to add to our collection.
- High Impact Practices for Experiential Learning.
- High Impact Practices for Experiential Learning: Key Features and Examples.
- Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development.
- Learning Styles and Learning Spaces: Enhancing Experiential Learning in Higher Education.
- Experientially Learning and Teaching in a Student-Directed Classroom.
- BSU Library for Articles on Experiential Learning
- Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Experiential Learning (Levett, 2020).
- Experiential Learning: A Handbook for Education, Training, and Coaching (Beard & Wilson, 2013).
- The Experiential Educator: Principles and Practices of Experiential Learning.= (Kolb & Kolb, 2017).
- Experiential Learning: Experience as teh Source of Learning and Develoment 2nd Ed. (Kolb, 2015).
- Experiential Learning: A Pratical Guide for Training, Coaching, and Education 4th Ed (Beard & Wilson, 2018).
- Experiential Education in the College Context (Roberts, 2015).
- Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurship (Hyams-Ssekasi & Caldwell, 2018).
- Best Practices in Engage Online Learners Through Active and Experiential Learning Strategies 2nd Ed (Smith-Budhai & Brown-Skipwith, 2022).
- High-Impact ePortfolio Practice: A Catalyst for Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning (Eynon & Gambino, 2017).
- Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices: Research and Models for Achieving Equity, Fidelity, Impact, and Scale (Zilvinskis et al., 2022).
- What is Experiential Learning with David Kolb?
- What is Experiential Learning in 2 Minutes?
- This is Experiential Learning
- The Cycle of Learning from Experience
- 8 Things to Know About the Experiential Learning Cycle
- Key Features of High Impact Practices with George Kuh
- Fostering Deep, Integrative Learning with George Kuh
National and Global Certifications
The Office of Experiential and Integrative Learning encourages faculty and staff to take their professional development and training for experiential learning to the next level with a national or global certification.
Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success
The Office of Experiential and Integrative Learning partners with the American Association of Colleges and Universities on experiential learning and high-impact practices through the Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success.
The Office of Experiential and Integrative Learning with a team of administrators, faculty, and staff will be attending the Summer 2024 AAC&U's Institute on High-Impact Practices and Students Success. During this institute the team will be working on the following:
- Create a comprehensive action plan or refresh your institution's current strategies to advance equity in student success outcomes across diverse student populations through the implementation of High-Impact Practices (HIPs).
- Discover innovative approaches to creating effective curricular and co-curricular designs for learning and assessment practices that connect with your students' unique strengths, cultural wealth, identities, and values.
- Develop effective strategies for overcoming limited resources and adapting to variations in modes of delivery, to ensure that effective practices are brought to scale.
- Learn how to embed high-impact practices across all disciplines and build capacity for wraparound services that support educating the whole student.
The university previously attended the Summer 2019 AAC&U Institute on HIgh-Impact Practices and Student Success and submitted the respective Action Plan.