Experiential learning activities have been used for over 40 years as a means of improving students’ learning. According to Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education in July 2019, a meta-analysis of 89 studies “show that students experienced superior learning outcomes when experiential pedagogies were employed… This review definitively, and quantitatively, shows the importance of experiential learning activities.”

We asked ourselves how many amazing concepts and ideas have we learned in our lives and how many have we remembered? Based on the pyramid below, 75% to 90% of information is retained when we practice it or better yet, when we teach someone else.

Average Retention Rates

Adapted from the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioural Science Learning Pyramid

At DIAKI Experiences, we have decided to take it one step further and to offer our participants the opportunity not only to practice what they’ve learned but to live it through an experience. In fact, when we learn from a personal experience (whether something from the past or an experience we live as a group during a session), we remember it much more because we have actually experienced it and it becomes part of us.

Based on that premise, we have developed the DELTA process, an interconnected process where participants are offered different fun interactive scenarios to allow them to experience, live and test what they’ve just learned. We also provide our clients with follow-ups to overcome the forgetting curve. Quick reminders can go a long way to retain and use valuable learnings in the long-term.