The ExperiencED podcast explores the process of learning from direct experience in all of its forms. We believe that experiential education is a strong complement to learning from a traditional academic curriculum. Experiential learning is particularly effective at informing students about their potential career paths and bridging the common gap between classroom-based skills and skills that are most practical for the workplace. Perhaps more importantly this approach is effective in broadening a student’s world view and increasing their capacity for humanity. Episodes offer a variety of interviews and conversations with individuals who bring unique perspectives on the importance of experiential education. Hosted by a multidisciplinary team: Jim Stellar (behavioral neuroscience), Mary Churchill (sociology), and Adrienne Dooley (education practitioner)
We see experiential education as taking advantage of the fact that the brain functions on two levels: the first being conscious knowledge and the second being unconscious knowledge based on instinct and feeling. This division in decision-making is both newly recognized in the field of neuroeconomics and long recognized in the writings of philosophers, e.g. Blaise Pascale – “The heart has reasons of which reason does not know.”
6.2 David Kil, Data analytics, causal AI, and its application to university experiential education understating of outcomes and potential ranking
Topics discussed in this Episode include:
David’s origin story as an electrical engineering major (who liked chemistry) but also got interested in people and took an MBA degree at night. He worked in the defense industry in signal processing and then at Humanna analyzing medical issues with predictive outcome analytics. This led to an emphasis on human interactions and even empathy from the medical providers in successfully helping patients on their health care recovery journey.
David met Jim first at CUNY and then at SUNY where they worked together on tying together the salary data from the New York State Department of Labor with the enrollment and major data from several SUNY universities about 10 years ago, particularly focusing on the presence of an internship in that program in the university.
Discussion of data analytics, AI, and the need for causal inferences from AI and not just outcome measures to improve student graduation success and career success after graduation, possibly involving experiential education.
Discussion of causal insights from data analytics, particularly AI and its application to helping students and families choose the right higher education institution for them taking into account a wide range of variables.
Ending discussion of how the world is changing and how causal AI can partner with humans to help with decisions (like college selection) that lead to outcomes.
Resources discussed in or related to this episode:
https://cmlinsight.com/ (https://cmlinsight.com/)
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_education (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_education)
16 Apr 2024
6.1 Jennifer Mulvihill, Cybersecurity Instructor at CUNY who brings experiential education principles into the classroom
Topics discussed in this Episode include:
Jennifer’s origin story focusing on how the study of Spanish in college helped lead her into law school for intellectual property and how that led to trademark infringements and cybersecurity.
A deeper dive into the development of her interests in volunteering even to learning to knit during COVID and making scarfs for service people.
Turning to teaching, a discussion of the importance of education especially to underserved populations such as attend CUNY (The City University of New York). A focus is on building a sense of purpose in this field to which these students respond. That inspires them and even though they have challenging lives, they show up.
The field of cybersecurity is important here as it has high relevance to them and to New York city in which they live.
The role of taking roles in the classroom in mock companies, which is part of her teaching, allows them to see themselves in those roles and as experts, certainly much beyond what the average person knows about cybersecurity.
That translates into an feeling of excellence in themselves such as when she has them make cybersecurity posters and put them up in their neighborhoods to help warn people particularly during cybersecurity month in October. Given the size of the class, there are typically examples right there of student who have been victims of cybersecurity attacks.
Finally, she discusses how cybersecurity should be a collaborative field without egos and, importantly, with room for such students. She uses the works “art of protecting” and they resonate, even to the point of protecting themselves not only from cyber-attacks but in general, and that helps to produce a real-world, experiential, motivation that drives their performance.
Resources discussed in this episode:
https://www.infragard.org/ (https://www.infragard.org/)
https://www.iq4.com/ (https://www.iq4.com/)
https://hunter.cuny.edu/ (https://hunter.cuny.edu/)
https://guttman.cuny.edu/ (https://guttman.cuny.edu/)
5 Dec 2023
5.3 Stephanie Doscher, Director, Office of Collaborative Online International Learning, Florida International University
Topics discussed in this Episode include:
Dr. Doscher tells her development story of how she came to direct COIL at FIU and how global learning found her but she found COIL. She also has an interest in systems thinking, but that is for another podcast.
A good discussion followed of the COIL methodology of teaching a project-based module in courses in two institutions where one is located outside the US and a project is executed between the two groups of students in separate classes led by two faculty. The basic framework was developed by Jon Rubin, founder and former director of the SUNY COIL Center as its “godfather.” At FIU, COIL is seen as supporting their initiative to act to improve collective well-being globally while providing global growth benefits to the students and to faculty who teach the courses.
While COIL allows students to get an international experience on campus in a class without the financial burden of travel, the main benefit is seen in peer collaboration with diverse populations around the world. That collaboration is transformational and leaves the students with important growth, skills, maturity, and inspiration.
In some ways, a COIL experience can be more impactful than study abroad or even cooperative education (co-op) abroad where the student may not have to work closely with peers and likely does not have to navigate online co-working tools.
The success of a COIL experience leaves students more mature, able, and experienced and that can turn into motivation as well as lead to employment. Some students seek more language training and often they say they learned not only about others but about themselves. This applies to students who may have a language at home other than English but have not yet applied it to working in that language with other native speakers who are the same basic age.
In some ways the collaboration part of COIL can exceed the experience of co-op even though that typically involves being at a workplace. Or it could support co-op and even be combined successively with it.
The podcast ended with a discussion of a “mission to help create a world of globally connected learners” at FIU, and how Dr. Doscher’s office works with their own faculty and students and those from other institutions domestically and around the world.
Resources discussed in this episode:
https://www.fiu.edu/ (https://www.fiu.edu/)
https://global.fiu.edu/coil// (https://global.fiu.edu/coil//)
The Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange (https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781620369838/The-Guide-to-COIL-Virtual-Exchange)
Making Global Learning Universal: Promoting Inclusion and Success for All Students (https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781620363607/Making-Global-Learning-Universal)
Making Global Learning Universal podcast (https://globallearningpodcast.fiu.edu/)
AshokaU Changemaker Campus (https://change.fiu.edu/)
Music Credits: C’est La Vie by Derek Clegg (https://www.facebook.com/derekcleggmusic/)
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