Introduction
You can spend hours explaining what an agile startup is, detailing a multinational's strategy, or modeling market growth. But there's a world of difference between the theory in a PowerPoint presentation and the reality of a company in motion. This is precisely the bridge that Learning Expeditions help bridge: they transform knowledge into experiences, concepts into emotions, and students into engaged stakeholders.
See, feel, question: embodied learning
When a student enters the offices of Glovo or Amenitiz, listens to a founder recount his failures and rebounds, asks questions directly to a product manager… they are living an experience that nothing can replace. It's no longer a textbook case frozen on a slide, it's a real company, with its challenges, its tensions, its successes. This creates a deep, memorable, human understanding. We no longer learn only with our heads, but with our eyes, our hearts, and our intuition.
Creating a link between courses and the professional world
A well-designed Learning Expedition is part of a holistic pedagogy: it extends the lessons, illustrates them, and sometimes challenges them. For example, after a module on internationalization strategy, students meet a Spanish startup that's expanding rapidly in France. After a course on retail, they visit an innovative omnichannel store. This direct link between theory and practice gives meaning to the learning, helps anchor knowledge, and allows students to better project themselves into their future careers.
An experiential pedagogy that leaves a lasting impression
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