Experiential Learning at UD

Karen Velasquez Lovett, director of the University’s Office of Experiential Learning, will be honored by a national organization Sept. 27 for her leadership in advancing experiential learning at UD.
Lovett will receive the 2022 Outstanding Leader in Experiential Education: Higher Education award from the National Society for Experiential Education during the organization’s annual conference in Salt Lake City. The award recognizes leaders in higher education who demonstrate innovative approaches to experiential learning at their institutions.

This Spring, the Offices of and eLearning collaborated on a pilot program for faculty entitled Online Experiential Development Program”or OELDP. The goal of the program is to help faculty use best practices to develop online experiential learning (EL) activities for their courses. The 4 session program met from March-April 2021.



This past November, the Office of Experiential Learning attended the River Stewards Community Visioning Event, where the seniors of the 2020 Cohort turned to the Dayton community to get input on their capstone project - a book that would come to be titled Into the River.

While COVID-19 may change how we interact with one another, both academic and extracurricular activities are continuing. The Office of Experiential Learning reached out to experiential learning practitioners from around UD to gather some tips for faculty and staff on how to best utilize resources and adapt to online learning and education.


