从实践经验中学习

A more broad term used to describe experience-based learning activities that often subsume other terms such as cooperative education, 服务学习或现场经验.  它通常是一种信用, free-standing activity in a student’s field of interest not connected to a theoretical course.  It is usually assessed by a faculty member and supervised by an employer who is not a faculty member. The student may work with practicing professionals, 完成一个项目, 参加公众活动, interview and observe constituents and employees.  The student may or may not be paid for this experience.  当附属于课堂课程时, a student may spend several hours a week volunteering in an agency, 支持课外活动, 跟随该领域的专业人士, or observing people in their natural environments. Key to this form of experiential learning is some type of guided reflection. The mission of this experience may be to support the integration of theory and practice, 探索职业选择, or foster personal and professional development.

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广泛的定义, undergraduate research includes scholarly, 有创意的, and artistic activities that lead to new knowledge, 提高解决问题的能力, offer original or historical theory and interpretation, and/or produce art or 有创意的 performances. A collaborative effort between students and their research mentors, undergraduate research and 有创意的 activities are interactive, discovery-based experiences that teach and engage students about the numerous components involved in the research and 有创意的 process. Research and 有创意的 opportunities occur in and outside of the formal curriculum.

学生的个人能力, 时间的承诺, and length of involvement will affect their productivity as undergraduate researchers. 本科 students may not engage in a research or 有创意的 opportunity long enough to make an original contribution to a discipline. However, if students learn and work on essential components of the research or 有创意的 process (e.g., review literature and identify knowledge gaps, 设计假设和实验, 收集和分析数据), we posit that they begin to more deeply engage in an academic discipline by learning about research or 有创意的 methods, practicing advanced critical thinking, and participating in key steps of the research and/or 有创意的 continuum.

Some students will work on part of a faculty member’s current research project. Other students may develop an independent project of their own that is guided by a faculty member. 无论哪种方式, students have opportunities in a variety disciplines from art history to zoology to engage in original hands-on research and 有创意的 projects.

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This term is used to denote optional or required out-of-classroom community service experiences/projects attached to courses or a separate credit bearing experience.  The location may be the broader community outside the university or one embedded in co-curricular activities. 在这些经历中, students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflect on the service activity to better understand course content and gain a broader appreciation of the discipline and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility.

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This experience is specific to students in pre-professional and pre-service teacher education who are gaining required and evaluated experience in supervised teaching.

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Students usually engage in courses at higher education institutions in another country.  The experiential learning component is the cultural immersion which provides novel challenges for navigating living in a new place.  The coursework connected to a study abroad can also include internships and service-learning experiences.

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