Unexpected career change and what it might mean for reform in higher education. Mercedes Carota NU’10 and Jim Stellar Mercedes Carota is a Business Student at Northeastern. She should have graduated, but stayed on to complete premedical requirements … Continued
The Experience of Co-op as seen several Years after Graduation. Amanda Marsden NU ’08 and Jim Stellar Amanda Marsden is a co-author with Rick Porter and me of the “Engaging the Whole Student” paper, the second post (2/17/09) … Continued
Co-op vs. Permanent Employment Natania Crane NU ’08 and Jim Stellar Natania graduated a year ago with a BA in Psychology and worked in a Behavioral Neuroscience laboratory down the hall from ours at Northeastern University. We kept in … Continued
Mentor-Mentee: Self Discovery, Emotional Connections, Learning and Memory. Shiela Kern ’09 and Jim Stellar Shiela and I have known each other for a few years. We started talking seriously this last year or so about how she could … Continued
The Book “Blink” and Experiential Education: Tapping the same Other Lobe of the Brain Circuits? Once one begins to think about how emotional logic circuits operate in experiential education (other lobe of the brain thinking), one sees them in other … Continued
As you can see, we continue to connect experiential learning notions to learning opportunities that might not to appear at first glance to be experiential, such as the entrepreneurship teaching techniques in Jamie’s classroom about which she and Jim write below. … Continued
Study abroad is in many ways the most academic of experiential programs and therefore has the greatest acceptance in colleges and universities. What is interesting then is how it is sometimes combined with co-op abroad to really intensify the abroad … Continued
Here is another post that comes out of Jim’s conversations with Northeastern students. It is touching on social media, something Shwen writes about in his blog, Med 2.0. -Jim and Shwen Social Media, Warmth, and “Other … Continued
As we continue with this blog, we find ourselves drawn to other topics outside experiential education, but ones that seem to utilize the same principles as we have been writing about. Here is one on leadership that developed between Jim … Continued
Northeastern University is well known for its experiential education programs, particularly cooperative education. But it has only been recently that experiential education was made a part of the core curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences and therefore a … Continued