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Role of Experiential Learning in Evolving Classroom

I had already mentioned about the importance of ‘Experiential Learning’ in my blog post titled ‘Enhancing Learning through various Experiential Learning Strategies’.

Today I wanted to share with you how, The George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D.C., has offered Experiential Learning environments in certain disciplines, that help both students and faculty realize their objectives by considering the needs for flexibility and meeting the pedagogical and learning demands.

Their experiential learning spaces include:

·         Award-winning, 6,300-square-foot School of Nursing's Skills and Simulation Lab

·          Milken Institute School of Public Health

·          Physics SCALE-UP classroom

The following videos depict the key features of above mentioned experiential learning spaces.

Skills and Simulation Lab

 

 

Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

 

While developing these projects, GW has realized the importance of inter disciplinary partnerships between IT department,  Audiovisual engineers and the faculties of concerned dept and has ensured that the faculties vision in realizing the goals and objectives are well understood by technical people.

 There is no doubt that these experiential learning environments would help the concerned professionals realize their goal with ease and ensure better performance.

 

I have also published this article on LinkedIn at http://linkd.in/1waocz9

 

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Game based Approach to Teacher Educators

We have come across incorporating game based learning to various subjects such as Maths, Science, Social studies  and Corporate /Business studies. So how about incorporating game based approach to Teacher Education?

It would be wonderful if teachers identify areas that require additional inputs before experimenting directly in class.

Quest2Teach fulfills your requirement.

Quest2Teach offers game infused curricula for teacher education so as to reduce the gap between educational theory and application. The teacher educators evolve their professional identity in various narrative 3D role based scenarios and try to address problems that may occur in real life scenarios.

Quest2Teach enables the teachers to perform transformational play that involves positioning persons with intentionality, content with legitimacy, and contexts with consequentiality.

 

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It also offers 2 frameworks:

Small ‘g’ games: For bounded, self contained games that can be completed.

Big ‘G’ infrastructures:  For open-ended, integrating small g games into a larger infrastructure with affinity spaces that promote student driven extensions.

The following image is one of the screenshots of virtual classroom scenario created using Quest2Teach..

 

http://quest2teach.strikingly.com/

Just visit the above link and view the slideshow to get an idea about creating game based scenario for teacher educators.

You can explore ‘Quest2Teach’ by requesting guest accounts by clicking here.

I have also published this blog post on LinkedIn at http://linkd.in/1w8IMzY 

 

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