# About Experiential Learning & Features of Experiential Learning:

This video link is “Experiential Learning Explained-Definition & Theory”. I believe it can help you quickly understand what experiential learning is, and tells you how the model works in a simple language.

Experiential learning, first of all, it is a new learning method that is different from the traditional educational learning model. Under this learning method, the experience is the foundation, and the learner becomes the centre of learning. No longer passively accept knowledge from teachers, classrooms, and textbooks, but automatically and spontaneously invest in the experience, and experience, observe, reflect, and summarize in the experience, and apply it to new life, go in a learning situation. It is precisely because of the whole-hearted participation that the learning efficiency, knowledge understanding, and knowledge memory persistence are greatly improved. The experiential learning method is 3 to 5 times the efficiency of the traditional learning method.

• The learner:
  In experiential learning, the learner becomes the real protagonist of learning, and this central merger is reflected in the entire learning process.
• Learning through “experience”:
  In traditional learning, the learner learns from the teacher, learns from the classroom, and learns from books; while experiential learning, learns from “experience”.
• Uncertainty:
  The learning process of experiential learning is full of uncertainty because the “experience” is brand new, the people in the experience are brand new, and what happens in the experience is brand new … The final learning process and results are also unpredictable.
• The process is important than the result:
  Traditional learning methods always focus on the results of learning and ignore the learning process. This is a narrow utilitarian idea. Experiential learning does not have a specific learning goal to be achieved. The process of experiential learning itself is the meaning.

# Align with my chosen topic:

Our topic is teaching a group of people the concept of impulse purchase behaviour among consumers through interactive learning methods. Group interactive learning is an important form of interactive learning. It is a teaching activity based on group activities. Experiential learning can help students understand the subject of learning. Follow the model of Experimental Learning, to do something, then reflect upon that action, based on that refection the learner can make some modifications, and do it again, improve that.

• To do:
  In order for learners to influence the purchasing behaviour of consumers, in addition to reading textbooks, the learner also need to create different specific scenarios, let learners actually complete the purchasing behaviour, and let them experience the feelings of different purchasing behaviours. Impulsive consumption refers to customers’ unprepared or conscious purchases made by external factors. Impulsive consumption has unconscious and unplanned behaviours. Therefore, we should pay attention to confidentiality when creating characteristic scenes, and we cannot tell them in advance so that the learner can successfully complete the purchase.
• Reflect:
  The learner conducts reflection and discussion in the group through different purchasing behaviour feelings and theoretical learning just now. What are the factors that lead to the success of buying behaviour, whether it has the characteristics of impulsive consumption? This step is the most important step of the whole experiential learning. Learners need to reflect on the experience they have gained. So as to be able to understand the subject more concretely.
• Modify:
  After reflecting on this series of revisions, the learner repeats the “buying behaviour” to complete the real “impulsive consumption” and understand the reasonable “impulsive consumption”. We need to avoid learners’ impulse consumption for impulse consumption.

# Conclusion:

Experiential learning is an active, learner-centric methodology where learners put knowledge and skills to use in a meaningful and relevant fashion (Robert 2018). Consumption needs to be understood through effective experience. My understanding is that when a learner enters an environment, the environment gives the consumer a role and a scenario that the consumer self-identifies. Once this role is self-identified by consumers, this scenario is considered successful. Because of the particularity of our group theme, I think experiential learning is the best learning method.

Reference

Experiential Learning Explained – Definition & Theory. 02 2016. 05 2020 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJN9QKukfPc>.

Kerner, Robert. “Five advantages of experiential learning” Northwell. 03 2018. 05 2020 <https://www.northwell.edu/news/five-advantages-of-experiential-learning>.

https://jianiyang.opened.ca/topic-1-blog-prompt/

After I read Jiani’s post 1, first of all, I agree with her point of view. Behaviourism, constructivism and cognitivism are very representative. Due to the different habits of people, suitable education methods are also different. But for constructivism, I have different opinions, because I think most people are based on constructivism. To put it simply, constructivism is like snowballing, building up new knowledge on the basis of old knowledge. From elementary school, middle school and university, we have been learning the new knowledge step by step on the knowledge we have mastered. Finally, I think she mentioned that people must always be curious and in awe of the new things. I have the same feeling that this is the primary productive force for learning.

https://vinceyue.opened.ca/post-1-blog-prompt/

Vince mentioned a lot of novel ideas, which I hadn’t thought of before. By reading his blog, it also gave me new ideas. For example, people who like to use their inherent thinking to determine things or phenomena are the shortcomings of many people, and I think this is also a shortcoming of most cognitivism because their way of thinking affects their behaviour, but often They didn’t realize it by themselves. Vince ’s experience of learning to ride a motorcycle is very interesting. If there is a chance, I would love to learn with him.

Thank you for the blog you shared this week, I really enjoy reading your text and look forward to your blog next week.

# Describe an example from your life of when you were taught using each method described in this article: behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism.

Behaviourism: The teaching goal is to allow students to respond correctly to the stimulus. In the teaching, the learning materials are decomposed into several small steps that can be mastered in sequence, and feedback is given at each step to help students complete the final learning goal.

Example: I think behaviourism often appears in preschool education. In kindergarten, I can often hear teachers praise children, for example, Max performs well, rewards him with candy, or Lucy has been talking in class, waiting to line up to play stand on the last one. Because behaviourism emphasizes the evaluation methods of reward and punishment.

Cognition: It is the process of learning as a process of information processing. It is believed that learning consists of receiving, short-term storage, coding, long-term storage, and extracting information. The teaching goal of cognitive is to help learners learn things and their characteristics, and internalize external objective things (knowledge and its structure) into its internal cognitive structure. Cognitive learning theory is particularly concerned about what happens inside the learner’s mind during learning.

Example: I hope my cat can take the initiative to shake hands with me, so I will give her food when I put her paws on my hands, so after a long time of trying, she understands that as long as I shake hands to get food, then she will take the initiative to shake hands with me or please me to get food.

Constructivism: Constructivism believes that knowledge is not acquired by teachers, but that learners use the necessary learning materials and construct the meaning through the help of other people (such as teachers and friends) under certain circumstances, that is, social and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, I think it emphasizes the learner’s initiative and believes that the learner generates meaning based on the original knowledge experience and constructs the process of understanding.

Example:  Chinese students usually take the IELTS test when they go abroad. There are many English education institutions in China, and they generally need to study systematically from the four aspects of “listening, speaking, reading, and writing.” Exam scores can help students reflect on their own weaknesses, and the teacher gives them knowledge. Students Only by using the knowledge they have learned to expand and improve their knowledge, and thus continuously improve their English.