Learning experience

DEFINITION 1: Any interaction, course, program, or other experience in which learning takes place, whether it occurs in traditional academic settings (schools, classrooms) or nontraditional settings (outside-of-school locations, outdoor environments), or whether it includes traditional educational interactions (students learning from teachers and professors) or nontraditional interactions (students learning through games and interactive software applications).

SOURCE: S. Abbott (Ed.). The glossary of education reform. The great schools partnership, USA.

HYPERLINK: http://edglossary.org/learning-experience/

DEFINITION 2: A wide variety of experiences across different contexts and settings which transform the perceptions of the learner, facilitate conceptual understanding, yield emotional qualities, and nurture the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. In educational settings learning experiences are ideally challenging, interesting, rich, engaging, meaningful, and appropriate to learner needs. Previous learning experiences are considered to be key factors predicting further learning.
 

SOURCE: IBE (2013). Glossary of curriculum terminology, IBE-UNESCO. 

HUPERLINK: http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/IBE_GlossaryCurriculumTerminology2013_eng.pdf