page_title: Experiential learning
section_title: Comparisons
hierarchical_section_title: Experiential learning / Comparisons
caption_attribution_description: English: Learning Retention Pyramid includes 3 stages Receiving, Participating, Learning by Doing with different retention rates from 0 to 1000%.
context_page_description: Experiential learning also known as is the process of learning through experience, and is more specifically defined as "learning through reflection on doing". Hands-on learning can be a form of experiential learning, but does not necessarily involve students reflecting on their product. Experiential learning is distinct from rote or didactic learning, in which the learner plays a comparatively passive role. It is related to, but not synonymous with, other forms of active learning such as action learning, adventure learning, free-choice learning, cooperative learning, service-learning, and situated learning.
  Experiential learning is often used synonymously with the term "experiential education", but while experiential education is a broader philosophy of education, experiential learning considers the individual learning process. As such, compared to experiential education, experiential learning is concerned with more concrete issues related to the learner and the learning context.
  The general concept of learning through experience is ancient. Around 350 BCE, Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics "for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them".
context_section_description: Experiential learning is most easily compared with academic learning, the process of acquiring information through the study of a subject without the necessity for direct experience. While the dimensions of experiential learning are analysis, initiative, and immersion, the dimensions of academic learning are constructive learning and reproductive learning. Though both methods aim to instill new knowledge in the learner, academic learning does so through more abstract, classroom-based techniques, whereas experiential learning actively involves the learner in a concrete experience.
caption: Experiential Learning is more efficient than passive learning such as reading or listening.[39]
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