Cooperative learning involves learners working in groups to teach themselves the content being covered. Discussion devices are carefully structured team learning activities designed to enable learners to reflect on how they can apply content being covered to their careers or personal lives. Experiential learning allows learners to experience the precise phenomenon they are exploring. Facilitators employ experiential learning to create experiences that enable learners to act out the behaviors, strategies, or other content being learned. Effective stories are entertaining and engaging, and they give learners a concrete context in which to place abstract ideas.
Stories make ideas real.
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