1. Collaborative and Experiential Learning
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”

2. What is Collaborative Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Collaborative Learning?
Students learn best when they are actively involved in the process. Researchers report that, regardless of the subject matter, students working in small groups tend to learn more of what is taught and retain it longer than when the same content is presented in other instructional formats. Students who work in collaborative groups also appear more satisfied with their classes. (Sources: Beckman, 1990; Chickering and Gamson, 1991; Collier, 1980; Cooper and Associates, 1990; Goodsell, Maher, Tinto, and Associates, 1992; Johnson and Johnson, 1989; Johnson, Johnson, and Smith, 1991; Kohn, 1986; McKeachie, Pintrich, Lin, and Smith, 1986; Slavin, 1980, 1983; Whitman, 1988)

3. What is Collaborative Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Collaborative Learning?
Informal learning groups are ad hoc temporary clusterings of students within a single class session. Informal learning groups can be initiated, for example, by asking students to turn to a neighbor and spend two minutes discussing a question you have posed. You can also form groups of three to five to solve a problem or pose a question.

4. What is Experiential Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Experiential Learning?
Students are Actively Involved
In experiential education, the student becomes more actively involved in the learning process than in traditional, didactic education.  For example, going to a zoo and learning through observation and interaction with the zoo environment is experiential and in contrast to reading and talking about animals in a classroom.  The main difference here, from a pedagogical point of view, is that the educator who takes his/her students to the zoo rather than stay in the classroom probably values direct experience more highly than abstract knowledge.

5. What is Experiential Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Experiential Learning?
Experiential education comes in many shapes and sizes
Experiential education is widely implemented across a range of topics and mediums - for example, outdoor education, service learning, internships, and group-based learning projects.  Many educational projects are experiential, but don't refer to themselves as such (e.g., excursions, physical education, manual arts, drama, art, and so on).

6. What is Experiential Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Experiential Learning?
Experiential Learning According to Googlism….
experiential education is really the oldest approach to learning
experiential education is the most effective way to make a positive difference
experiential education is any form of education that integrates students' experiences into the curriculum
experiential education is a unique and powerful training experience that challenges workgroups to assess their strengths and discuss

7. What is Experiential Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Experiential Learning?
Experiential Learning According to Googlism….
experiential education is any form of teaching that utilizes direct "hands-on" experience
experiential education is an educational strategy that connects classroom theory with practice in the real world

8. What is Experiential Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Experiential Learning?
Participants are guided through doing an activity, reflecting on their experience, and applying what they’ve learned. This process is key to learning and growing from experience.

9. What is Experiential Learning?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is Experiential Learning? Do
(What)
Reflect
(So what?)
Apply
(Now what?)

10. What is a “Teachable Moment”?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is a “Teachable Moment”?
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. 10

11. What is a “Teachable Moment”?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is a “Teachable Moment”?
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ch. 17

12. What is a “Teachable Moment”?
Collaborative and Experiential Learning—The Ultimate “Teachable Moment”
What is a “Teachable Moment”?
We all can remember them, whether good,
bad, sentimental, whether a moment came on
all at once, or the moment was something we waited on…the moment that may have changed our viewpoints or even our lives forever…the moment…that teachable
moment.