MTa, an experiential teaching tool, came from Britain and was founded by Dr. Martin Thomson, a psychologist, on 1982. There are more than 100 kinds of learning activities, each of which is designed for specific training needs. It is the most popular exhibition at ASTD annual meeting and has been used for training by more than 1000 first-class enterprises around the world. The domestic experiential teaching tools MTa are all from Britain.
Bert Consulting introduced it to China after many exchanges and studies. Experiential learning is a learner-centered learning method, which requires the combination of practice and reflection to acquire the expected knowledge, skills and attitude. MTa makes the learning point active around a certain training purpose, forms a team task under certain time pressure, deeply reflects on the phenomena in the process of experiencing activities, understands the management principles and applies them to practice.
David Kolb (kolb, 1984) is an experiential learning model and a representative of experiential learning theory. Kolb believes that learning is not the acquisition and transmission of content, but the process of creating knowledge through the transformation of experience. He used the learning cycle model to describe experiential learning.
This model includes four steps: (1) actual experience and experience-fully involved in the local actual experience activities at that time; (2) Observation and reflection-observing and thinking about actual experience activities and experiences from multiple angles; (3) Formation and induction of abstract concepts-logical concepts and theories are abstracted through observation and thinking; (4) Test the significance of new concepts in the new environment-use these theories to make decisions and solve problems, and verify their newly formed concepts and theories in practical work.