Linkr For Experiential Learning
What is experiential learning?
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Experiential learning gives learners opportunities to learn by doing.
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Classes can become experiential when they involve students actively participating, solving problems, and collaborating on authentic challenges.
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Co-curricular experiential learning can intersect with classes or offer internship, workplace integrated learning, or a chance to earn a certificate.
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Often, class-based or co-curricular experiential learning involves collaboration with other institutions, or community partners.
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Learners are treated not just as consumers of content but as producers. For example, participants can build a digital portfolio tracking progress.
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Offices of experiential learning champion this kind of work on campuses. They support the development of robust institutional models for experiential learning.
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Participants can earn recognition in the form of a certificate or badge, recognizing a students’ commitment to learning by experience outside traditional curricula.
Why are institutions and organizations championing and growing experiential learning programs?
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Experiential learning programs help learners develop highly relevant “21st century skills” such as collaboration, cross-disciplinary communication, independence, leadership and digital literacy.
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Connecting courses and academic degrees to experiential learning breaks down barriers between academic work and professional contexts.
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In the 2020s, student demand for experiential learning has increased and institutions with strong programs can differentiate their institution.
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With experiential learning, higher education’s relevance is maintained through direct involvement with the world outside of academia, showing relevance and keeping learners’ engaged.
Linkr is the best platform to help you create, manage, and grow your experiential learning program!
Offering a neutral home base with engaging features like digital portfolios, collaboration tools, and a social and meaningful way for managers to track co-curricular transcripts, Linkr is the most turnkey experiential learning solution. Cost-effective, brandable, and powerful, Linkr will propel your program to the next level in a matter of days.
5 Ways Linkr supports experiential learning programs :
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Designed for experiential education
Each experiential learning Community receives a private social network with a built in LMS- each are designed for experiential learning. Linkr’s profiles and digital portfolios offer participants a way to really get to know each other. With a highly social interface that feels familiar to all participants, Linkr makes launching live meetings, scheduling activities, and tracking student achievements easy as its LMS and community home is not constrained by academic course calendars.
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Flexible
Participants can join from inside and outside institutions. Timelines are completely flexible around program structures, enabling cohorts, classes and groups to track across semesters, years, semesters, and cohorts. Tracking co-curricular activities is organized, but open for variation, supporting all varieties of experiential learning.
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Linkr makes everything easier
At the end of the day, Linkr takes the headache out of program management and participation:
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Easily track co-curricular work
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Measure program impact and engagement.
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Get everyone involved
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Keep everyone engaged
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Keep alumni together and develop meaningful, long-term relationships and mentorships.
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Easy to implement
Linkr requires little to no setup. It’s a web-based platform, like the ones you know, only it's yours (brand it any way you want). It becomes your greatest tool for keeping learners’ work organized, your community focused, while saving time in tracking students’ co-curricular activities.
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Secure and accessible
Compliant where it counts, Linkr passes every test for protection of personal privacy and information.
We hold hands too.
With years of experience, the Linkr consulting team is ready to support your experiential learning program.
