Housed within the Office of the Provost’s Teaching & Learning Innovation unit, Experience Learning is a bold new initiative with the goal of transforming the educational experience for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Tennessee. Specifically, it seeks to enhance students’ development and educational experiences by providing more opportunities for experiential learning.
Experiential learning is an approach to education that emphasizes engaged student learning through direct experience and intense reflection to increase knowledge, acquire lifelong learning and problem-solving skills, and elucidate values. Research has shown experiential learning increases the quality and depth of academic study and makes learning more enjoyable and fulfilling for both students and teachers.
Hi Rajwinder, I suggest linking your experiential learning with Kolb's experiential theory and addressing your learning experience through the four stages identified by Kolb. I enclose an article by Kolb et al.
I'll respond with the understanding that you are asking about the experience of learning and not necessarily about structured experiential learning. With that said, and coming from a phenomenological perspective, there are three things to consider: context, intentionality, and emotions. Simply put, what is the context in which something is learned (formally or informally), was it intentional for the learning to have occurred, and, what was the emotional outcome of the experience in which learning resulted. Start with asking those three things.