Team-based Learning (TBL) is a specific, evidence-based teaching strategy that engages students in active learning. Read more about Teaming up to Learn: TBL, an Effective Strategy for Collaborative Learning
Every UNT instructor is required to identify, post, and maintain office hours so that students can have access to their instructors. Read more about Utilizing Office Hours to Encourage Student-Instructor Interaction
The first day of class can be a source of excitement and anxiety for students and instructors. Read more about First Day of Class Checklist
Experiential learning is “learning by doing” that promotes active, engaged learning. The following article sheds further light on what constitutes experiential learning. Read more about Components of Experiential Learning
Experiential learning often occurs in settings that simulate real world environment. These settings can occur within a classroom, in the community, or on campus. Read more about Creating Effective Learning Spaces for Experiential Learning
In addition to community engagement and problem and project-based learning, experiential learning can occur via a variety of in-class activities. These activities allow students to attain, practice, and demonstrate “real-world” knowledge within a classroom or school setting to cultivate the analytical and communication skills necessary for solving problems that students will confront after leaving school. Participating in authentic learning activities allow students to practice and cultivate skills and knowledge that they will need as professionals once they graduate. In authentic learning environments, instructors step in to coach at critical moments. Read more about Creating Experiential Learning Experiences in the Classroom
Experiential learning can range from a small component to a very comprehensive component of your course. Read more about Designing Experiential Learning for Your Course
Community engagement is a type of experiential learning that involves study in a place outside the classroom. Often these community engagement experiences are considered transformative to the lives of our learners and to us as instructors, as well. They involve raising awareness of difficult issues and contradictions, personal growth, emotional and spiritual connections, and making new meaning. Read more about Incorporating Community Engagement into Your Course
Both problem-based learning and project-based learning are types of experiential learning. Problem-based learning involves critical thinking to examine problems that lack a well-defined answer. In project-based learning, students are challenged to develop a plan and create a product or artifact that addresses the problem. This article delves further into the differences and similarities between these two types of experiential learning. Read more about Problem-Based Learning vs. Project-Based Learning
When you set up experiential learning situations for your students, they can apply course concepts and knowledge to real-life problems and situations like ones they may encounter in their own professional and personal lives. Through this process, they begin to see patterns in problems and potential solutions. When they encounter similar problems in the future, they can draw on the rich bank of examples and knowledge of patterns among problems and solutions you have helped them to build. All this experience moves them on the path to developing expertise in their fields. Read more about The Impact of Experiential Learning on Student Learning
