1. Authentic & Experiential
Learning
By
Melissa Winfield

2. What is authentic learning?
• Authentic learning is learning that uses
real-world problems and projects and that
allow students to explore and discuss
these problems in ways that are relevant
to them.

3. Elements of Authentic Learning
• 1.Provide authentic contexts that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real life
• 2.Provide authentic tasks and activities
• 3.Provide access to expert performances and the modelling of processes
• 4.Provide multiple roles and perspectives
• 5.Support collaborative construction of knowledge
• 6.Promote reflection to enable abstractions to be formed
• 7.Promote articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit
• 8.Provide coaching and scaffolding by the teacher at critical times
• 9.Provide for authentic assessment of learning within the tasks.

4. What is experiential learning?
• Experiential learning is the process of
making meaning from direct experience,
or "learning from experience".

5. The Theory

6. Facets of Learning

7. The Learning Cycle

8. Student Engagement

9. Classroom Implementation