Experiential Learning is what WILL Interactive is all about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_education

In this first blog entry for WILL Interactive’s shiny new site, I just wanted to touch on something that is at the core of the WILL philosophy, learning by doing. Fancy academic types will call this Experiential Learning, or learning by experiencing a topic, situation, or event. As a springboard into this idea, I wanted to relate something that happened to me this week at WILL.
We have a lot of actors who come through our doors, seeking to be in our movies. Recently we had a large audition for a half dozen films we have coming up, mostly on military themes and for use by military personnel. I want to use this as an example because it will hopefully highlight the types of, needs for, and possibilities of, experiential learning. That was an ugly sentence, eh?

I sat in on the auditions as a reader and redirector and was surprised quite a few times by the type of learning going on just in the audition process. And not just by our auditionees. Let me explain.
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