Emerging Trends and Practices in Social Science Education - Seminar

 

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Experiential learning is learning from experience. It is the process of making meaning from direct experience. It is process of learning not on the product. David A Kolb helped to develop the modern theory of experiential learning. According to Kolb, ‘Experiential learning is a process by which the learner develops meaning and insight from engagement in direct experience’. Experiential learning can be defined as individuals learning through exploring, experiencing, creating, discovering, relating to and interacting with the world around them.

 

PRINCIPLES OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

·         Human beings have a natural potentiality to learn.

·         Significant learning occurs when the learner perceives the relevance of the subject matter.

·         Learning involves a change in self-organization and self-perception.

·         Learning that threatens self-perception is more easily perceived and assimilated when the external threats are at a minimum.

·         Much significant learning is acquired by doing.

·         Learning is facilitated when the learner participates responsibly in the learning process.

·         Self-initiated learning involves the whole person

·         Independence, creativity, and self-reliance are all facilitated when self-criticism and self-evaluation are basic.

 

CHARACTERISTICS

 

·         Direct participation of learner

·         It is self-initiated

·         It is active and dynamic

·         Students centered

·         Encourage students for create knowledge

·         Involves students’ choice

·         Self-evaluative

·         Real world experience

·         Learning present problem

 

BLENDED LEARNING

Blended learning is an approach to learning and teaching that incorporates human resources and technological resources. It is the combination of online exposure and offline instruction. It combines and aligns learning facilitated in face-to-face classroom mode with learning opportunities created online. Students learn lessons partly through the instruction of the classroom teacher and partly through the materials delivered online.

Blended learning is different from e-learning. E-learning is full time online learning. In e-learning situations, students are physically separate from the classrooms, and away from the teacher and the classmates. In Blended learning, students alternate regularly between engaging with teachers and peers and focusing  on online content suitable to their learning speed and progress. Blended learning integrates online content and offline instruction. It occurs within a face-to-face class that happens at a specific place and time. It helps the learners get the combined benefits of classroom learning.

Blended learning helps students learn or revise learning, stay organized, express what they have learned, submit assignments, track their achievement, and communicate with others timely and more effectively.

 

CHARACTERISTICS

·         It integrates teaching and technology.

·         It makes use of the materials delivered online.

·         It includes face to face class by the teacher.

·         It facilitates providing learning materials in electronic format.

·         It provides opportunity to submit assignments electronically.

·         It ensures regular formative and summative assessments with feedback.

 

ADVANTAGES

·         It facilitates richer interactions between teacher and learners and among learners themselves.

·         It enhances the width and depth of learning.

·         It helps students master content and skills to the maximum extent at their own pace.

·         It enhances the speed of learning.

·         It compels teachers to update continuously.

DISADVANTAGES

·         Lack of Reliability.

·         Affects the person who have less technical knowledge.

·         Include wrong information.

 

                                                                       

 

 

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