The experiential approach is becoming an increasingly popular instructional strategy in marketing coursework. This article discusses the nature of experiential projects, constraints on the use of this approach, and numerous problems instructors can encounter when they use experiential projects for the first time. Solutions are suggested for each problem and some summary comments are made about using experiential projects as a teaching strategy.
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