{"id":25620,"date":"2019-03-08T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=25620"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T22:00:11","slug":"experiential-learning-what-exactly-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/experiential-learning-what-exactly-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiential Learning: What exactly does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bengt Carlson is experiential learning coordinator in the Walker Center for Teaching and Learning.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cExperiential learning.\u201d Even if you\u2019ve heard the term, you may be uncertain of its meaning.<\/p>\n

At the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, experiential learning very specifically refers to a high-priority and high-impact element of the UTC experience that\u00a0uniquely puts students at the center of the University\u2019s value to its community and region.<\/p>\n

Outdoor Chattanooga, a 15-year-old division of city government\u2019s Department of Economic and Community Development, is just one of countless examples. In 2018, the organization got a free dose of top expertise from UTC Assistant Professor Joy Lin and her students. A self-described \u201cvery outdoorsy person,\u201d Lin joined UTC in 2017 and a year later, partnered her digital marketing class with Outdoor Chattanooga to assess and redesign its website for a better user experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw in their newsletter they planned to revamp their website and sought input,\u201d Lin says. \u201cI went to see them\u2014we agreed more young people should get off their cell phones\u2014and they embraced the opportunity for my students to conduct market research and give them input on the target market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever the academic discipline, says Bengt Carlson, UTC\u2019s experiential learning coordinator,\u00a0\u201cExperiential learning is\u00a0just running theory through practice\u2014taking ideas and understanding about something and putting them into practice. Since its inception in 2013, the number of students participating has grown to involve a third of the total student body.\u201d<\/p>\n

The inception Carlson refers to is UTC\u2019s distinctive focus on experiential learning, formalized with the \u201cThinkAchieve: Beyond the Classroom\u201d platform implemented in 2013. Students participate in special programs\u2014called experiences\u2014and receive weekly email listings of campus and community events they can attend and must reflect and report on to earn points toward awards and recognition.<\/p>\n

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Joy Lin, assistant professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship<\/p><\/div>\n

Designated experiences include serving as campus orientation leaders, financial literacy training, mentoring elementary schoolchildren toward collegiate careers, men\u2019s and women\u2019s leadership development and more. Weekly events cover the gamut\u2014from the \u201cTop Five Free Things to Do in Chattanooga,\u201d to a Native American heritage luncheon; and workshops on everything from using 3-D modeling software to conducting legal research.<\/p>\n

Where the program really breaks out of the classroom, though, is in designated experiential learning courses. These semester-long, for-credit courses present students with the academic understanding of a subject that students then compare to the reality of the subject as it impacts everyday life.<\/p>\n

Accumulating a required minimum 120 points through a combination of the experiential learning options earns \u201cThinkAchieve Graduate\u201d status along with a UTC bachelor\u2019s degree.\u00a0Besides incentivizing students to seek opportunities to compare course content to hands-on reality, ThinkAchieve also is about immersion in campus and community.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can make a compelling case that UTC is highly involved in its community,\u201d Carlson says.\u00a0\u201cSolution Scholars, for example.\u00a0They work with the Tennessee\u00a0Small Business consortium over in the incubator on Cherokee\u00a0Boulevard\u00a0right on the north shore. They get assigned projects for small businesses\u00a0as clients,\u00a0and\u00a0they\u00a0do research for the small businesses\u00a0to help inform a decision or a problem being faced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beverly Brockman, who heads the Gary W. Rollins College of Business\u2019 department of marketing and entrepreneurship\u2014home of Solutions Scholars\u2014says students fill an unmet expertise need of local business. \u201cThe other part of it, and this is already happening, is that the students who are doing exceptionally well and are exceptionally dedicated and interested in working in this environment, they\u2019re hired by Solutions Scholars, Inc. to continue their work for a client over the holiday break or over the summer break. Beyond the semester course calendar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t always happen that you have partnerships that just work, but it has been a fantastic arrangement between UTC; the instructor, Liza Soydan, a professional with her own consulting firm; and the Tennessee Small Business Development Center and its director, Lynn Chesnutt, who vets all the clients students work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krysta Murillo is a visiting assistant professor\u00a0in the midst of\u00a0her third,\u00a0one-year appointment with the UTC School of Education.\u00a0In 2017, she and Joy Lin were among five \u201cExperiential Learning Faculty Fellows\u201d selected to review obstacles to more robust connection of theory to practice. Fellows also were to develop his or her own experiential learning course, apply for experiential learning course designation and share that experience with colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot until I ventured out to participate in this ThinkAchieve cohort and listened to other professors talk about it in their courses did I know how much experiential learning is a part of UTC,\u201d Murillo says. \u201cI was blown away. I never knew you could take a marketing course into a local business and ask about helping fulfill their unmet needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cFaculty are being encouraged across disciplines to think about their course work\u2014what could fit here to give students more meaningful applications than they would have without experiential learning? What would make this opportunity even better?\u201d Murillo adds.\u00a0\u201cBeing more competent in whatever your field gives all students an edge when they graduate, and here at UTC that there\u2019s a great, great opportunity to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson says a designated task force reviews applications\u00a0from across campus\u00a0for\u00a0proposed new\u00a0course offerings, both for-credit and non-credit. Proposals for new fall 2019 courses were due in February.\u00a0Most often, students report signing up for the obvious, tangible rewards such as priority registration, then find themselves\u00a0overwhelmed by the intrinsic rewards they didn\u2019t anticipate.\u00a0As Carlson reads from a satisfied student\u2019s email:\u00a0\u201cI signed up to get priority registration and I got all of this\u00a0I never expected!\u201d<\/p>\n

Chancellor Steve Angle notes that experiential learning and courses that facilitate it at UTC reach far beyond the successful and highly visible ThinkAchieve. \u201cThere are so very many areas. There\u2019s undergraduate research, internships, practicum courses; and something like an apprentice model for music and theater students,\u201d Angle says. \u201cThe advantage for UTC to do experiential learning right is that we focus on undergraduates in a community that wants to engage our students and has real opportunities for our students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have faculty\u2014in our theater program\u2014\u00a0who want to have students learn by doing. In engineering, our students get the opportunity to engage in hands-on research with\u00a0faculty and graduate students,\u201d adds Angle.\u00a0\u201cBetween the campus and the community, we really can provide every student a meaningful experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The very first goal of the UTC strategic plan calls for it, in fact: \u201cTransform lives through meaningful learning experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

To achieve that goal, the plan states,\u00a0\u201cAll\u00a0undergraduates will complete an internship, practicum, service project, research project, senior capstone, honors thesis or international experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the\u00a0most recently reported statistics, for the\u00a02017-2018 year, 1,996 unique students participated in 62\u00a0different UTC experiential learning courses. Another 181 unique students participated in events\u00a0from\u00a0Take Back the Night\u00a0to the\u00a0Multicultural Mentorship Program\u00a0to various study abroad opportunities. Another 378 students took advantage of experiences\u00a0from\u00a0PAWS\u00a0(Postsecondary Awareness\u00a0with\u00a0Success), a\u00a0mentoring\u00a0program for elementary school children, to High-Achieving Mocs Living Learning Community (HAM LLC) and more.<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0ThinkAchieve\u2019s\u00a0inception in 2013, the number of individual students participating in each category has grown from 693 to\u00a0more than\u00a03,000\u2014or about a third\u00a0of the total student body.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2016, \u201cReSEARCH\u202fDialogues\u201d is a two-day, April celebration and exhibition of noteworthy achievements in scholarship, engagement, the arts, research and creativity involving undergraduates, graduate students and faculty.\u00a0Four areas of competition\u00a0are in podium\u00a0and\u00a0panel\u00a0presentations;\u00a0poster\u00a0and\u00a0display\u00a0presentations; live\u00a0performances;\u00a0and\u00a0business pitches.\u00a0In one year, alone, from the event\u2019s second year to its most recent, 2018, participation\u00a0increased\u00a0by about 25 percent.<\/p>\n

“The things we teach students in class should help prepare them to learn more by themselves,\u201d Lin says, \u201cand they need to be able to think for themselves after they graduate, no matter what their field.\u00a0Because of the experiential learning process, UTC students\u00a0may\u00a0have to go through\u00a0some\u00a0struggles, but\u00a0they do\u00a0so\u00a0in an environment where there is a safety net. We are preparing them to go through struggles after they finish college. I don\u2019t just want them to get a job with what they learn in class\u2014I want them to be able to keep a job by themselves, by what they know and what they can contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n

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