After a successful first Experiential Learning Congress in November 2010, followed by a ebook (JMD, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2012) many scholars and practitioners expressed their wish to continue the rich exchange of ideas, methods and knowledge in the field of experiential learning and management education. The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) took this as a mandate to organize a second Experiential Learning Congress, taking place in April 2012 in Paris, focusing on the interdependency of learning and experience.

One of the focal points of this ebook is the construction of learning spaces, the analysis of environments in which learning occurs as well as the assessment of the quality of learning. For Kolb, learning appears to result from the combining of concrete experience or action with abstract conceptualization, or understanding. Learning arises as "the combination of grasping and transforming experience" (Kolb, 1984, p.41), but which role is played of the experience of learning? Through the papers here presented, this ebook offers suggestions to answering this question and therefore not only captures the knowledge shared during the Experiential Learning congress but also adding to the body of knowledge in both theory and practice.