Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Depiction of Health 2008-9058 5 3 2014 12 20 Experimental Learning in Nursing Literature Education 31 36 EN Eskandar Fathiazar Elnaz Asghari REVIEW Experimental learning is a type of discovery learning. This method of learning appears to be suitable for nursing education, but there is not enough evidence about it. As a result, in this non-systematic review article, after explaining experimental learning, its application in nursing will be presented based on literature review and with functional examples. According to the results, in this kind of learning, students practice with experimental cases and learn by failure in. Participants should have the main role and teachers act as mentors or learning facilitators. According to the literature, it seems useful to use this new method in nursing education.