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This guide to Experiential Learning is written by Dr Colin Beard, Sheffield Hallam University.   In this interactive resource guide Colin uses his training experiences to develop a series of different experiential learning and facilitation methods. Some methods have been captured on video and audio.

Colin has a degree in zoology and led an ornithological research expedition to the Amazon rainforests in the 1970s. He has also worked for environmental charities such as  the RSPB, BTCV, and a County Wildlife Trust.

Colin is currently a Faculty Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Organisation & Management, Sheffield Hallam University. He is an expert practitioner in designing and facilitating experiential learning, completing a doctorate in this fiield and co-authoring a key text in the field ‘Beard, C. and Wilson, J. (2006) Experiential Learning: A Best Practice Handbook for Educators and Trainers, (2nd Ed.) (London, Kogan Page)’. His expertise is recognised in a National Teaching Fellowship Awarded by the Higher Education Academy. Colin is also working with SCEPTrE to help develop a more experiential higher education curriculum.