Services
Training Services | Videotaping Services | Research Services
Training Services
The Experiential Learning Center is designed specifically to facilitate experiential learning in an academic environment. The Center Utlizes structured experiences that enable students to gain a greater and more comprehensive understanding of theories and their application.
To conduct the experiential exercises, the Center employs professional trainers. These individuals research, design, and adapt structured experiences to support specific business course objectives. These individuals also conduct and debrief activities at the Center. To create a successful experiential environment, it is important for the faculty, students and trainers to work together. At the ELC, the Marshall School faculty, students and trainers share the responsibility for creating a successful learning experience.
Faculty
- Determine the course objectives and make a joint decision with the assigned facilitator on selecting the appropriate experiential exercise(s).
- Actively observe the exercise while the facilitator is conducting the activity and debrief.
- Support the relevant content debrief in the previous or in the following class meeting.
- Provide feedback on the structured experiences, facilitation and the technical support.
Students
- Participate openly. Play the assigned roles as if you were in the actual situation.
- Tolerate ambiguity. We often do not publish the goals of an exercise and certain aspects of an exercise may be left to the students to discover as they learn from their own experiences.
Facilitators
- Initiate discussion of course objectives and structured experience options with faculty.
- Research, create, modify, and prepare experiential exercises.
- Conduct and debrief structured experiences.
- Share observations about the activity and class performance with the faculty.
- Obtain feedback from students and faculty.
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Videotaping Services
The Experiential Learning Center uses state-of-the-art technology in videotaping student presentations, mock interviews and exercises in conjunction with courses and programs offered at the Marshall School of Business. The Center is designed so that participants are able to get immediate feedback on their participation. The videotape recorded during the exercise allows students to view themselves as they encounter and address the simulated experiential situations. The tape also allows the trainers and faculty to highlight key actions and processes in order to enhance students' understanding of a particular concept or behavior.
Research Services
One-way mirrors and headsets enable researchers and faculty members to observe and listen to the activities transpiring in each studio from a central control-room corridor. This coupled with the videotaping capabilities contribute to making the ELC facilities in Popovich and Bridge Hall an ideal research environment.
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