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Supporting course and programme design

Supporting course and programme design

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  2. EL: Additional resources

EL: Additional resources

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Teaching with Collections: Part of the University's Heritage Collection, this service is aimed at supporting experiential learning through object-based teaching.

Living Labs: The Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) department is supporting Living Labs, where student engage in research projects that generate recommendations and outputs capable of progressing the University's social and civic responsibility delivery plan as part of their studies. Course organisers interested in embedding living lab assignments in their course are encouraged to contact lucy.patterson@ed.ac.uk, but SRS also offer individual dissertation placements for all students.

In time, the SRS department will also be able to offer support for integrating outdoor experiential learning at their forest and peatland restoration sites across Scotland. To express early interest in this please contact lucy.patterson@ed.ac.uk.

Toolkits

Experiential learning toolkit: set within a North American context, this toolkit provides a comprehensive overview of experiential learning and how to get started with this.

Website

Experiential Learning: The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Northern Illinois University offers a helpful suite of webpages.

Experiential Learning: The Boston University Centre for Teaching and Learning has a range of useful tips in relation to experiential learning.

 

Journal articles

There is a dedicated Higher Education journal called Journal of Experiential Education, which is worth browsing.

Specific articles to read include:

Elsden, E., Kador, T., Sercombe, H., Piper, K., Barkan, M., Webster, E., & Smyth Zahra, F. (2023). Experiential learning spaces and student wellbeing: a mixed-methods study of students at three research intensive UK universities. International Review of Psychiatry, 35(7–8), 591–604. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2023.2268720.

Seaman, J., Brown, M., & Quay, J. 2017. The Evolution of Experiential Learning Theory: Tracing Lines of Research in the JEE. Journal of Experiential Education, 40(4), NP1-NP21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1053825916689268

This article connects experiential learning and widening participation, and is written by colleagues at the UoE:

Speirs, N. M., Riley, S. C., & Mccabe, G. 2017. Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses: Using Structured Reflection within Experiential Learning to Enable Widening Participation Students? Transitions Through and Beyond Higher Education. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v5i2.274

Books and Book chapters

Assessment for Experiential Learning, (2023) (Book, 379 pages) 

Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum: Theory and Guidelines for Practice. (2nd ed.) Routledge. (2024) (Book, 186 pages) 

 

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