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What is The Business Practice School?
The SIIPL Business Practice School (BPS) is an innovative Educational Initiative from SIIPL intended to:
- help first timers (fresh graduates) as well as experiencedlearners get quickly aligned to a new subject
- focus on a 4 step model – skill acquisition, reinforcement,retention and augmentation
- develop problem solving skills, independent thinkingability and mental agility with real life problems
- develop decision making skills, subject matter competency,creativity and innovation
The SIIPL BPS has 2 parts to the process – the online technology enabled learning and the field learning.
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Part A – Online Interactive experiential learning
This part of the learning process continues the training andtheory into an enriched online learning experience that offers:
- an online reference library of all subject relevant materials
- a virtual classroom + self learning module to continue the learning journey
- other extended digital learning tools like podcasts, videos and case studies
- a platform to interact with other learners through tools like chat, forums etc
- online reference material
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Part B – Field experiential learning
This part of the learning process focuses on the field learning through actual participation in field workshops, shadowing, research, observation etc to experience the concepts in a live field situation.
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The Experiential Learning Pedagogy
Experiential learning is defined as the process of making meaning from direct experience. It has been popularized by David A Kolb and inspiration has been drawn from the works of John Dewey and Jean Piaget.
Other synonymous words used are action learning, adventure learning, free choice learning and cooperative learning. Experiential learning is focused on the ‘Individual learning’ where one makes discoveries and experiments with knowledge first hand and thus gains ‘learning insights’ to hone, reinforce, refresh or upgrade knowledge and skills.
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Learner requirements
Experiential learning requires the learner to :
- be actively involved in the experience
- reflect and pace the learning process and thus make it more enjoyable
- possess and use analytical and cognitive skills to conceptualize and derive insights from the experience
- possess decision making and problem solving skills to use the ideas gained from the experience
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