"experiential" query

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:

>   Today a senior colleague pointed to a sign on a campus van which said:
> "Student Design & Experiential Learning Center" and asked if I ever
> heard "experiential" before.  I hadn't, and neither had he.  The word is
> based on "experience" and refers to learning by doing.

There are 13,500,000 hits in Google.  There are 2775 hits on Nexis just
since Feb. 1, 2006.  Skimming some of the Nexis hits, it appears that most
of them are not in the realm of education.  Basically, "experiential" is
the adjective pertaining to "experience" and is a fairly common word.

Fred Shapiro


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