What is Experiential Education?

From what I understand, experiential education is the process of learning something through experience, then taking the time to reflect on it (mostly through journaling/writing about it/etc.) so we can better understand how the experience affected us.

I noticed that experiential education typically refers to more active class settings, therefore making recreation classes well suited for the experiential learning process. I also thing this process could be applied to other types of classes if they were more engaging with students.