Experiential Academy
Experiential Learning data and best practices
Q&A with BYU’s Director of Experiential Learning, Roger McCarty
Roger McCarty's history with experiential learning extends back further than most: He was the Director of Experiential Learning for BYU from 2007 to 2017 and is now Director of Experiential at BYU Hawaii. We started EduSourced in 2014 and, at that time, the concept of...
Experiential Learning Project Health: Trends in Project Success
What is Project Health? Project Health was launched in 2020, a feature designed to surface issues and challenges within a team or project in real-time. How does it work? Experiential programs using the EduSourced platform can enable or disable this feature. If...
2021 Experiential Learning Benchmark Report
The 2020-2021 academic year had a lot of plans put on hold in Higher Education. Experiential learning programs were no exception. This year's experiential learning benchmark results show less change year over year than the we have seen in prior years yet experiential...
Remote Internships? Reacting to COVID-19
Working remotely has always been the default for experiential project-based learning. This post describes how experiential projects serve as a remote internship and may be an ideal alternative to internship programs given the need for social distancing with COVID-19....
EduSourced Product Update March 2020
For EduSourced's response to the need for remote teamwork due to COVID-19, click here. General product update for our March 20 release The primary enhancement with this update is in a much more efficient to use survey response interface. This new interface, pictured...
COVID-19 Update
Few industries are more upended right now than Higher Education. For our part, we are actively monitoring site performance and scale as needed to ensure a stable experience as you close out the spring term and as traffic rises with more people working remotely....
Developing and Educating Gen Z
https://youtu.be/457j15eJiNg This webinar was hosted by LX Consortium, a joint effort between several schools, employers and EduSourced revolving around experiential learning. Special thanks to University of Illinois for co-hosting this panel and the LX group. More...
Educating and Developing Gen Z
Presented by The LX Consortium Watch the Recording Recorded Live February 25 1PM Eastern The LX Consortium is presenting a webinar with an expert panel as we learn about how to better educate Gen Z. Gen Z, now a larger group than Millennials, makes up approximately...
Aggregating Experiential Learning
Not a week goes by without talking to school, looking to adopt EduSourced, where we ask "how many experiential touchpoints do you have?" and the answer is, nearly 100% of the time, "we don't know." Experiential learning is profoundly personal. Each instructor or...
Northern Illinois Experiential Learning Center Q&A
The Experiential Learning Center at NIU College of Business is on its 19th year of putting NIU students to work on live consulting projects for employers and a longtime client of EduSourced. We checked in with ELC's director, Jason Gorham, to find out how they do it....
The Babson Model for Student Consulting
Guest post by Arline MacCormack, Associate Director for Experiential Programs, Babson Babson, world renowned for entrepreneurship, is also a top contender for offering unique and valuable experiential opportunities for our students. Our first-year students’...
2019 Project-based Experiential Learning Survey Results
The results are in for the 2019 project-based experiential learning survey! 72 participants completed the survey, primarily from engineering and business schools but also including multidisciplinary programs not bound to a single college. Perhaps the most useful...
