Knowledge Management

Adapting Kolb to Modern Conditions

As for myself, I have deliberately not tinkered with the mechanics of experiential learning—rather, just the aspects that can adapt it more effectively to business practice and the modern working environment (Kransdorff, 1998, 2006).

For example, because traditional experiential learning concentrates on the application of contemporary experience, my approach has been to introduce prior experience to the table, a feature that should open up vast new areas of scholarship for academia and would-be benefits for practicing organizations. As traditional experiential learning within organizations also concentrates on the correction of mistakes, I have extended the discipline to address all decision making through ...