Action and Experiential Learning

As you can tell from reading these various posts, I am a believer in learning by doing. I haven't had a "class" in blogging nor have I ever taken a computer class; but I do experiment, read, ask others, and continuously try new things.

David Kolb was one of the first to write formally about experiential learning, and his definition of it is simple: “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.”

If you reflect on Kolb's model (below) and on how you most likely really learn anything, it becomes harder and harder to defend an educational process that relies so completely on theory, reading, and learning facts.