Promote Experiential Learning

Enhance experiential learning by applying HIEE designations, developing evaluation procedures, recommending participation timelines, increasing financial support, ensuring global education access and leveraging digital tools.

Define, assess and promote experiential learning

  • Each academic unit will define experiential learning and measure what is already being conducted (e.g., undergraduate research, internships, professional and entrepreneurial experiences [student teaching, clinical work, efactory], community-based learning [service-learning, internships], classroom experience [case studies, project-based learning, labs, virtual reality], global engagement [study abroad, other international experiences] and creative work [arts, performance, etc.]). Academic units will verify the following:
    • Review curriculum and identify opportunities to apply the high-impact educational experience (HIEE) course designations already in place as appropriate.
    • Develop a procedure external to programs for evaluating courses for HIEE designation (e.g., Weber University Academic Affairs: HIEE Attributes).
    • Update or modify existing HIEE designations as needed.
  • Each academic unit will share a recommended timeline for students to participate in experiential learning as part of program and career mapping.
  • Each academic unit will implement a way to communicate the value or benefit of early participation in experiential learning to freshmen.

Expand experiential learning

  • Academic units will find opportunities and resources to increase student and faculty engagement in experiential learning through the following methods:
    • Evaluate physical spaces within colleges and develop procedures for shared use across campus to maximize efficiency and identify where additional resources are needed.
    • Increase scholarships and other financial support for experiential learning.
      Ensure that all students have access to global education and engagement via expanded education abroad scholarships, virtual exchange (VE), collaborative online international learning (COIL) and contact with MSU’s international community.
    • Increase financial support for faculty and students for professional memberships, internal grants for research and equipment, and travel (e.g., conferences, education abroad and field trips).
    • Increase paid experiential opportunities for students (e.g., paid internships, paid undergraduate research, paid service-learning and paid work-study opportunities).
    • Leverage digital tools to increase access to experiential learning (e.g., virtual field trips and interactive technologies connecting students to others and the world).

Experiential Learning Definitions

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Experiential Learning Project Grants

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Q&A Session

Interested in applying, but want to learn more? Members of our work group hosted an informal Q&A session via Zoom on Tuesday, November 18.