expanding experiential education in today’s hyper-competitive economy

Expanding Experiential Education in Today’s Hyper-Competitive

EconomyRosina Miller, Ph.D.

Michael Edmondson, Ph.D.NSEE October 29, 2009

The Philadelphia Center

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Rosina Miller

•Executive Director of The Philadelphia Center

•www.tpc.edu

•romiller@tpc.edu

Michael Edmondson

•Founder of MEAPA – a global training company

•www.meapa.com

•me@meapa.com

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Objectives:

•Introduce key dynamics

•Highlight new experiences

•Link dynamics to new experiences

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Outcomes:

•Practical template you can immediately use

•Provide new ideas on how to expand EE on your campus

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Dynamics

Current world population? ___________

Global mobile subscribers?___________

Global Internet users?_______________

~ number of web sites?______________

~ number of YouTube videos?_________

~number of blogs?__________________

Your weekly time…..

Online browsing web sites?_______

Online with email?______________

Online watching videos?_________

Online shopping?_______________

Online banking?________________

Creating content online?_________

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Information Exchange Rate

Amount of Information

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Types of Experiences

Experiences with new media that people are having?

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· Lessons we can learn from these new experiences?

New forms of community: New ways of connecting with people, linking people in ways we’ve never been linked before.

New forms of expression (user-generated content): people are producing in ways never able to before (books, videos, remixes, mash-ups).

New forms of working together: People are sharing, trading, collaborating in ways never possible before.

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The need for EE is greater now more than everMichael Wesch, Kansas StateUniversity:

Media is not content or tools ofcommunication, media mediate humanrelationship. When media change,human relations change.

Lessons from new media help usadvocate for the value of learning from our experiences to expand experiential education programs, in terms of:

• Tools available• Content• Ways of working• Understanding changes in human relations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

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Where are you now? Where do you want to be?

Strategy

Tactics