ExperiencED
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe ExperiencED podcast explores the process of learning from direct experience in all of its forms. We believe that experiential education is a strong complement to learning from a traditional academic curriculum. Experiential learning is particularly effective at informing students about their potential career paths and bridging the common gap between classroom-based skills and skills that are most practical for the workplace. Perhaps more importantly this approach is effective in broadening a student’s world view and increasing their capacity for humanity. Episodes offer a variety of interviews and conversations with individuals who bring unique perspectives on the importance of experiential education. Hosted by a multidisciplinary team: Jim Stellar (behavioral neuroscience), Mary Churchill (sociology), and Adrienne Dooley (education practitioner)
We see experiential education as taking advantage of the fact that the brain functions on two levels: the first being conscious knowledge and the second being unconscious knowledge based on instinct and feeling. This division in decision-making is both newly recognized in the field of neuroeconomics and long recognized in the writings of philosophers, e.g. Blaise Pascale – “The heart has reasons of which reason does not know.”
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5.3 Stephanie Doscher, Director, Office of Collaborative Online International Learning, Florida International University
December 05, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBTopics discussed in this Episode include: Dr. Doscher tells her development story of how she came to direct COIL at FIU and how global learning found her but she found COIL. She also has an interest in systems thinking, but that is for another podcast. A good discussion followed of the COIL methodology of teaching a project-based module in courses in two institutions where one is located outside the US and a project is executed between the two groups of students in separate classes led by ...
5.2 Norah McRae, Associate Provost, Co-operative and Experiential Education, University of Waterloo
November 13, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBTopics discussed in this Episode include: Dr. McRae’s development academically and administratively around the idea of experiences outside the classroom as an important part of transformational learning of students, which is part of her research interest, and is part of her current roles at the University of Victoria and as the head of WACE. She reviews some of the aspects of the first move of the WACE secretariate to Waterloo, Canada from its previous home in the USA. And she talks about ...
5.1 Nicole McLean, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, InStage
October 31, 2023 15:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBEPISODE NOTES Topics discussed in this Episode include: The origin story of Nicole McLean and InStage in building a safe interactive simulation operation where people (e.g. college students) can practice on-line a variety of presentation soft-skills with avatars and get feedback before going out for the first internship or cooperative education experience. The analogy to sports and leveling the playing field is discussed as a metaphor for the importance of practice to proper execution and...
4.4 Ricardo Torres, President and CEO, National Student Clearinghouse
November 16, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The origin of the NSC, its involvement in the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and potential incorporation into the LER as a broader documentation that is inclusive of workplace and other skills that drive success after college including employment and further schooling. Having built an ecosystem of trust, the NSC is leading in this next phase of learning documentation. The importance of LER documentation in a skills framework in guiding transit...
5.1 Ricardo Torres, President and CEO, National Student Clearinghouse
November 16, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The origin of the NSC, its involvement in the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and potential incorporation into the LER as a broader documentation that is inclusive of workplace and other skills that drive success after college including employment and further schooling. Having built an ecosystem of trust, the NSC is leading in this next phase of learning documentation. The importance of LER documentation in a skills framework in guiding transit...
Ricardo Torres, President and CEO, National Student Clearinghouse
November 16, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The origin of the NSC, its involvement in the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and potential incorporation into the LER as a broader documentation that is inclusive of workplace and other skills that drive success after college including employment and further schooling. Having built an ecosystem of trust, the NSC is leading in this next phase of learning documentation. The importance of LER documentation in a skills framework in guiding transit...
4.3 John Cimino, President of Associated Solo Artists
August 17, 2021 15:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: John’s interesting early history holding both science and music in his own heart and leading to the discovery of his singing voice and a career in opera including starting with Pavarotti. Then he went on to blossom in his and his team’s inspirational non-profit work with many universities and fortune 500 companies around the world. John’s discussion of the two emotional experiences of his youth - reading Einstein while listening to Chopin. Then, a ...
4.2 Karsten Zegwaard, The University of Waikato
May 04, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The relatively young University of Waikato and its recent development as a work-integrated learning (WIL) institution in New Zealand. The recent re-organization of Waikato’s administrative structure that served a university-wide commitment to WIL. A discussion of other institutions who made similar broad-based commitments and how they can be implemented. The task of doing this with the faculty and in a time of a pandemic. And finally, his having t...
4.1 Ken Smith, Jobs for America's Graduates
March 16, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The dramatic origin of JAG in Delaware, a State that was then in trouble but the Governor found a way to invest in JAG and it became a national model. How the Governors are key to getting a JAG program going by bringing together industry as employers with the high schools which have the students. The work experience leads not only to jobs but to high graduation rates as stated above. JAG now features project-based learning that involves industry f...
3.3 Alex Johnson, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
January 26, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: Dr. Johnson’s introduction into the speech-language field, which was itself experiential, based on mentoring that stemmed from the 1970 Kent State shootings, his undergraduate college. A discussion followed of how he and the field embraced this experiential approach when he first went into academic leadership at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. His department partnered with Case Western Reserve University to design a two-year clinical fellowshi...
3.2 Patricia Orozco, Laurentian University
January 05, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The way WIL works in a smaller business environment in which they are located in Sudbury, Ontario, some 400 kilometers to the south. The idea is that this brings a more intimate cooperation between the university and the largely small to medium sized local businesses and provides the students with a greater range of WIL learning opportunities. The structure of the program is to have attached courses that students take online while they are on the W...
3.1 Ian Sladen, Drexel University
November 10, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBTopics discussed in this podcast include: Some details of how a major cooperative education university operates to combine academic and work-place learning after just celebrating its Centennial anniversary. In addition to taking care of the students, note was taken that Drexel as a co-op school also takes care of its co-op partners by providing them with year-round employees even if the person on co-op changes. Benefits to the students include more than in-depth on-the-job skills that can...
2.4 Michael Sharp, University of Cincinnati
June 23, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The history of Experience Magazine, focusing on the point where he became editor in 2017 and the influences on him that brought that about. The importance of adding to the magazine’s title, the additional tagline of Practice + Theory + Podcast. When asked about a favorite story in Experience Magazine, Michael responded with an article entitled “What you can learn from 2000 sticky notes” about employing participatory action research to study women ...
2.3 Experiential Education and COVID-19
April 28, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: We opened with our campuses shut down and rapidly moved to online teaching. Jim discussed teaching his courses which started out as hybrid back in January, giving him and the students an advantage in going fully online. The issue of how younger “digital natives” adapt was discussed and we concluded that people do like online for its convenience, but also love being together for the rich interpersonal interactions that supplements classroom learnin...
2.2 Shaun McAlmont, K12 Career Readiness Education
March 17, 2020 15:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: The factors that drive high school students to online providers from homeschooling to a desire to accelerate their education to managing fear producing events such news stories about bullying, school shootings, or the corona virus. The focus has always been on being “able to envision where they [the students] could possibly see themselves” with a new focus also on career-ready graduates especially in rural populations. The parallels to college expe...
2.1 Cara Krezek, Canadian Association of Cooperative Education and Work Integrated Learning (CEWIL)
February 18, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: CEWIL’s history from the 1970s as a passionate volunteer organization of universities and colleges that began with the name CAFCE (Canadian Association for Cooperative Education) but broadened the definition and incorporated Work Integrated Learning (WIL) into its name. The partnership with the government and education starting in western Canada in British Columbia in WIL, but then picking up the attention of the federal government for future talen...
Season Two Preview
February 04, 2020 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBResources Discussed: Cara Krezek Cooperative Education at Brock University CEWIL Canada Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada Jillian Kinzie NSSE Institute National Survey of Student Engagement Shaun McAlmont K12 Inc Michael Sharp Experience Magazine at CEIA
1.4 - Frank Cicio, Founder of iQ4
December 17, 2019 19:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: Opening discussion of Experiential Education in general and need from the perspective of higher education Early history of iQ4 starting with STEM and moving to cybersecurity in trying to solve the skills-gap problem for students and for employers using technology in a world that is continuing to turning virtual. Realization that iQ4 was building a Learning Management Platform for skills using student teams and project-based learning, but also fitt...
#4 - Frank Cicio, Founder of iQ4
December 17, 2019 19:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: Opening discussion of Experiential Education in general and need from the perspective of higher education Early history of iQ4 starting with STEM and moving to cybersecurity in trying to solve the skills-gap problem for students and for employers using technology in a world that is continuing to turning virtual. Realization that iQ4 was building a Learning Management Platform for skills using student teams and project-based learning, but ...
#3 - Nancy Johnson, The World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE)
November 19, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: Johnson’s personal history starting as a co-op student learner before starting a long career in co-op administration at Simon Fraser University. A brief history of WACE with about 4,000 members world-wide. The recent WACE summer conference at the University of Cincinnati, which included the WACE Charter at the President’s Summit designed to engage senior university leaders and to fit with United Nations UNESCO goals. The four Charter cha...
1.3 - Nancy Johnston, The World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE)
November 19, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: Johnston’s personal history starting as a co-op student learner before starting a long career in co-op administration at Simon Fraser University. A brief history of WACE with about 4,000 members world-wide. The recent WACE summer conference at the University of Cincinnati, which included the WACE Charter at the President’s Summit designed to engage senior university leaders and to fit with United Nations UNESCO goals. The four Charter challenges ...
#3 - Nancy Johnston, The World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE)
November 19, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBTopics discussed in this episode include: Johnston’s personal history starting as a co-op student learner before starting a long career in co-op administration at Simon Fraser University. A brief history of WACE with about 4,000 members world-wide. The recent WACE summer conference at the University of Cincinnati, which included the WACE Charter at the President’s Summit designed to engage senior university leaders and to fit with United Nations UNESCO goals. The four Charter ch...
#2 - Paul Harrington, Center for Labor Markets and Policy, Drexel University
November 01, 2019 16:31 - 35 minutes - 32 MBTopics Discussed in this Episode: Paul’s choice of labor economics as a field and his starting employment from a working class background Layperson definition of mal-employment in the college labor market vs gig work The effect of lower literacy and numeracy skills on student’s potential for mal-employment. The effect of college major on pathway to a job. The effect of starting early in college with paid work experiences like cooperative education no matter the choice of major....
1.2 - Paul Harrington, Center for Labor Markets and Policy, Drexel University
November 01, 2019 16:31 - 35 minutes - 32 MBTopics Discussed in this Episode: Paul’s choice of labor economics as a field and his starting employment from a working class background Layperson definition of mal-employment in the college labor market vs gig work The effect of lower literacy and numeracy skills on student’s potential for mal-employment. The effect of college major on pathway to a job. The effect of starting early in college with paid work experiences like cooperative education no matter the choice of major. A third...
1.1 - The Role of Experience in Educating Today's College Students
October 01, 2019 19:33 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBTopics Discussed in this Episode: The role of experiential education (co-op) in teaching. What experiential ed does for students. How experiential ed makes you a better teacher. Teaching Marx and Foucault to co-op students. Experiential education and your first job interview. Getting faculty involved with experiential education. The importance of post-graduation employment for today's college students. Resources Discussed in this Episode: Northeastern University's Co-op Program
#1 - The Role of Experience in Educating Today's College Students
October 01, 2019 19:33 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBTopics Discussed in this Episode: The role of experiential education (co-op) in teaching. What experiential ed does for students. How experiential ed makes you a better teacher. Teaching Marx and Foucault to co-op students. Experiential education and your first job interview. Getting faculty involved with experiential education. The importance of post-graduation employment for today's college students. Resources Discussed in this Episode: Northeastern University's Co-op ...