Experiential Learning - Top 5 Resources

If you’re wondering how to enhance your experiential learning practices and make meaningful connections with learners’ knowledge and experiences, here are five valuable resources to support experiential learning. Discover rubrics, learning modules, reflection models, and prompting questions.

By Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning

When exploring the USask Experiential Learning framework, you might want information about reflection frameworks, providing efficient feedback, and grading reflection.

While we have built some resources around reflection and feedback, other higher education institutions have some gems to support Experiential Learning.

Brock University:  Reflection in Your Course and a Critical Reflection Rubric

  • Lays out why and when students should reflect, what reflection could look like, and provides a framework for evaluating reflection with a rubric.

Taylor Institute, University of Calgary:  Learning Module: Critical Reflection

  • Introduces critical reflection to faculty, instructors, and staff with concise text, videos, checklists, and reflection questions; provides references and additional resources.

The University of Edinburgh:  Assessment Rubrics for Reflection

  • Suggests two holistic rubrics and two analytic rubrics with references.

University of Cambridge:  Models of Reflection and Barriers to Reflection

  • Summarizes four models: ERA, Driscoll, Kolb, and Gibb’s Cycles with pros and cons.
  • Addresses students as future professionals with benefits and barriers to reflection.

University of Waterloo:  Reflection Frameworks and Prompts

  • Offers eight different frameworks, accompanied by prompting questions.

These resources can assist you in making positive connections with learners’ knowledge and experience, as well as support the use of reflection as assessment as, for, and of learning. Although we’ve pointed to specific resources, you may wish to explore the other excellent, adaptable materials, ideas, and practices posted by educational developers and educators on these sites.



USask EL Resources

Learn more about USask’s Experiential Learning framework and find out what supports (including financial) are available.

Questions?  Email the EL team details of your project and/or questions to be connected with the appropriate supports. You may be connected with the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning, Career Services, or another group depending on the nature of your request.

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