A passage from the article, “Networked Learning as Experiential Learning” by Gardner Campbell-https://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/1/networked-learning-as-experiential-learning-intrigued me. I used to struggle with how to give students the experiential activity learning that created deep learning, but now think of online learning as ALL experiential learning that can create the deep learning that students seek in our Programs or eventually appreciate. The quote from the article provided a new perspective: “the experience of building and participating within a digitally mediated network of discovery and collaboration is an increasingly necessary foundation for all other forms of experiential learning in a digital age. Moreover, the experience of building and participating within a digitally mediated network of discovery is itself a form of experiential learning, indeed a kind of metaexperiential learning that vividly and concretely teaches the experience of networks themselves. With networks replacing ladders and trees as a primary metaphor to describe the structures of knowledge, digitally networked learning becomes marvelously recursive as a site of integration: the very experience deepens learners’ understanding of the condition of learning itself within a strongly social context that can mobilize communities of practice quickly and effectively.” (p.70)
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