• The PD&EE Team focuses on four critical areas:

    1. Building experiential learning capacity across the Schulich School of Business.
    2. Coordinating the design and delivery of a Professional Development course to be offered to all Schulich School of Business programs.
    3. Building and enhancing experiential education and outreach support for students and faculty, including work placements of varying kinds, as well as international opportunities.
    4. Engaging and building positive relations with community partners and employers, university partners, and alumni.

Experiential Education

  • What is EE? What is EE?

    Experiential Education (EE) is a pedagogical approach in which students learn through experience. Instructors purposefully engage learners in a direct experience and focused reflection in order to build knowledge and develop skills in a real-world context. Students can engage in experiential education in three main ways:

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    Classroom Focused: Students are exposed to concrete learning activities in the classroom (e.g. guest speakers, case studies, simulations, role playing) that require them to reflect on what they have experienced in relation to concepts/theories being covered in the course.

    Community Focused: Students have the opportunity to connect course material with experiences that occur through interactions with community and industry partners that can take place in the classroom or in the community. The community focused EE opportunities are addressing student learning outcomes and community needs, and the students receive academic credits (e.g. research, consulting and capstone projects). Few examples of existing Schulich community focused EE projects: Strategy Field Study Course – MGMT 6100; Global Leadership Program – GLP; Management Consulting Course – MGMT 6960.

    Work Focused: Students have the opportunity to develop competencies and skills and augment the theories/concepts learned in their degree programs by getting hands-on work experience within organizational environments while they earn academic credits (e.g. placements, internships, co-ops). Existing Schulich work focused EE projects: MBA Graduate Placement Course -MGMT 6850, Master of Marketing Graduate Placement – MKTG 6905, BBA Work Placement – MGMT 4850, iBBA Work Placement – IBUS 4100.

     

    Video: Teaching Innovation – Experiential Education at Schulich

    EE is an approach to learning that bridges theory and practice by providing students with opportunities for concrete, applied, practical experience and helps them reflect on this experience using theory and what they have learnt in the classroom. Incorporating reflection as a planned activity allows the students to actively reflect on their experiences and critically examine their assumptions.

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