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The Urban Adventure Classroom: Technology, Teambuilding, and Place- Based Experiential Education

John Dewey Learning is rooted in primary experience. Experience occurs on a continuum. Learning is a social process

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The Urban Adventure Classroom:

Technology, Teambuilding, and Place-Based Experiential Education

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The What’s and Why’s of Experiential Education

John DeweyLearning is rooted

in primary experience.

Experience occurs on a continuum.

Learning is a social process.

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The What’s and Why’s of Experiential EducationKurt Hahn

Physical, mental, emotional challenge as a base of education.

Importance of triumph and failure.

Expeditions and service as methods of education.

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Concreteexperience

Reflectiveobservation

Abstractconceptualization

Activeexperimentation

Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model

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Historical Roots of Experiential Education at Boston University

1912-1940’s – Outdoor Education teacher training

1950’s-2000’s – School Camping Program

1950’s-1960’s – Expedition camping program

1970’s-1980’s – Human Environment Institute

1970’s-1980’s – Executive Challenge

2005-Present – GPS Urban Adventures

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Existing teams might regress back to an earlier stage of development

Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

Adjourning

Stages of Team Development

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Experiential Education in the Digital Age

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Locations

• Boston• Cambridge• Newport• Salem

• St. Paul• Little Rock• Manchester• Albuquerque• Brussels

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Case Study: New Student Orientation

Common Groundhttp://www.bu.edu/buee/case-studies/common-ground/

Sargent College Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program

School of Management MBA

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Case Study: Academic Courses SMG OB221: Dynamics of Leading

OrganizationsSAR HP650: Health Care

ManagementMET AD733: Leadership in

Management

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BUEE in the Future

Boston Harbor IslandsGreater Boston

Metropolitan AreaExecutive EducationHigh School Social

StudiesIntensive Experiential

Adventures

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