Experiential Learning in Action: From Doing to Deep Understanding

Overview

Too often, practical activities focus on doing rather than learning. This engaging and highly practical webinar shows you how to design experiential learning that goes beyond task completion to create meaningful, transferable learning that sticks.

Part of our Teaching with Impact, supported by Great Theory webinar series, this session is designed for education and training professionals who want to strengthen pedagogy and enhance everyday practice. Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies you can apply immediately helping you build purposeful, well-structured learning experiences that drive engagement, behaviour, and achievement.

In this session, you’ll explore how to design and deliver work-based and practical learning activities that actively develop critical thinking, reflection, and real-world application. Grounded in the principles of experiential learning, the webinar will equip you with a clear framework for turning active participation into deep learning—whether you work in classrooms, workshops, or workplace settings.

By the end of the session, you’ll be able to confidently create learning experiences that not only engage learners in the moment but also support long-term skill development and improved outcomes.

Part of a wider webinar series

You can also register or state your interest in upcoming sessions - AELP Members get 20% off if you book onto all 3 in the series:

Metacognition: Supporting Learners to Learn How to Learn

Assessment for Learning

Objectives

This webinar will help you to:

Understand the principles of experiential learning
- Explore what experiential learning really means and why it is so powerful for developing deep, transferable knowledge.
Apply Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle
- Learn how the four stages—Concrete Experience, Reflective Observation, Abstract Conceptualisation, and Active Experimentation—translate into effective teaching and training practice.
Design high-impact experiential learning activities
- Develop practical strategies for embedding experiential learning into classroom, workshop, or workplace delivery.
Reflect and refine your current practice
- Evaluate how you currently use experiential learning and identify clear opportunities for improvement.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is ideal for professionals working across the education and training sector, including:

Independent training providers
Workplace learning providers
Apprenticeship training providers
Voluntary sector providers
Providers delivering combined authority-funded contracts
General Further Education (GFE) sector

Roles include:

Trainers, teachers and assessors
Heads of Quality
Heads of Teaching and Learning

Resources

Each delegate will leave with a set of strategies (on PowerPoint).

Facilitator

Paul Wakeling, Education Consultant

Paul Wakeling qualified as a teacher in 1993 and has had a number of roles in the Learning and Skills Sector, including Principal of Havering Sixth Form College, Group Deputy Principal of New City College and Exec Director of E- Learning at The Skills Network. Paul now works across the sector with a focus of leadership development and the development of teaching, learning and assessment. He is also Chair of Governors at USP College.

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Fees

Member rate: £69.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £119.00 + VAT

To pay via credit card, please contact our Accounts Team at:

Phone: 0117 947 2095
Email: [email protected]

If you are unable to pay via credit card, we will automatically raise an invoice and send it to you. Once your invoice has been paid, you will receive the confirmation email containing the Zoom joining link.

If you register but are unable to attend, we will send you a copy of the recording after the webinar has taken place.

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