Optimalisasi Pembelajaran Berbasis Pengalaman (Experiential Learning)

The mission of Islamic universities to become world-class universities necessitates a serious improvement of the entire element in it. This paper highlights the learning elements as target for urgent improvement required. The problems formulated in this paper are: 1) A normative study as a result of the socalled thematic tarbawi interpretation of the verses of the Qur'an that are relevant to the experience-based learning; 2) A theoretical study discussing one of the experience-based learning models, namely the Kolb's experiential learning (EL); 3) A practical study in the form of ideas that is constructed from normative and theoretical study outcomes with applicable operational measures. The formulation of these problems is qualitatively studied by using library research. The research results are: 1) The stories of prophets (PBUT) and characters in the Qur'an indicate explicitly or implicitly their interaction with experience-based learning; 2) The theory of experience-based learning theories having been tested and are widely applicable is the one of the Kolb's Experiential Learning (EL) that serves three main products, namely (a) the EL Cycle consisting of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and activeexperimentation; (B) learning strategies that are relevant to the EL Cycle; (C) learning style that is based on EL Cycle, namely divergence, assimilation, convergence and accommodation. 3) The practical study in this research resulted in three recommendations, namely (a) Kolb's EL Cycle-based implementation; (B) Kolb's EL-based learning strategies Kolb; (C) The Facilitation of learning style based on the Kolb's model in learning.