Helpful Tips for Completion
The Completion component of Experiential Learning focuses on what the student learns and how to enhance these opportunities. The two elements of Completion are:
Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Any learning activity will be dynamic and changing, and the parties involved all bear responsibility for ensuring that the experience, as it is in process, continues to provide the richest learning possible, while affirming the learner. It is important that there be a feedback loop related to learning intentions and quality objectives and that the structure of the experience be sufficiently flexible to permit change in response to what that feedback suggests. While reflection provides input for new hypotheses and knowledge based on documented experience, other strategies for observing progress against intentions and objectives should also be in place. Monitoring and continuous improvement represent the formative evaluation tools.
Assessment and Evaluation
Outcomes and processes should be systematically documented concerning initial intentions and quality outcomes. Assessment is a means to develop and refine the specific learning goals and quality objectives identified during the planning stages of the experience, while evaluation provides comprehensive data about the experiential process as a whole and whether it has met the intentions suggested.
OspreyImpact is the UNF enterprise tool for monitoring student completion of Experiential Learning activities. Within the system, students can log hours directly related to Experiential Learning activities, and it requires verification for each Impact (input) a student enters into the system. An administrator can do the Impact verification for the activity (i.e., a faculty member of a course) or an external individual can vouch for the completion of the activity.
Beyond monitoring completion of activities, Experiential Learning activities also need to be assessed and evaluated. For assessment, this should be related directly to the intended competencies and/or learning outcomes. UNF recommends using AAC&U VALUE rubrics and NACE Competency rubrics as assessment tools for Experiential Learning. You can access these, and other options provided through The University of Tennessee Knoxville Teaching & Learning Innovation and McGill University, through the links below.