The best approach to learning cannot be considered before asking these essential questions: "What is learning? How do we learn? Why do we learn?"

Experiential learning, in a general sense, is the process of learning through experience. But more specifically, experiential learning looks at optimizing the learning process itself by focusing on the individual's involvement (experience) with the learning material. This is an important distinction between other types of experience learning - such as action learning, free choice learning, cooperative, or service learning - which focus on the experience  around learning vs. the experience  with learning.

Experiential learning is an active approach to a subject's lesson; "active" meaning an approach to material which uses different senses, tactics, and manipulatives to stimulate multiple forms of intelligence, as defined by Harvard researcher and professor Howard Gardner. At its heart, experiential learning is a very natural and intuitive way to learn vs. the passive, lecture-and-note style of learning most children experience. Simply look at how lifelong learning happens everyday for those not in a classroom. They learn in workplaces and at home by doing; and the learning is always directed towards something. 

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