How do KPU faculty and instructional staff implement inquiry-based learning? From work-integrated learning, to exploring SDGs, to rock climbing, to going to the Amazon Rainforest, the examples are many and spread across the disciplines. This workshop is created to assist faculty gain a solid understanding of the theory and practice of inquiry-based learning and develop your own inquiry-based activity or project for students.
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to…
- Describe inquiry-based learning as a process-based and learner-centred educational model that promotes student agency
- Distinguish and connect inquiry-based learning to other models of learning, such as direct, experiential, active, and reflective learning
- Identify the key phases, and four levels, of inquiry-based learning and their implementation
- Identify the conditions for a successful inquiry-based learning environment (e.g., agency, curiosity, flexibility, guidance, supportive)
- Discuss and design (in brief) an inquiry-based project related to your teaching (or other practice at KPU), and the use of formative feedback
LOCATION: ONLINE
- Facilitator: Lee Beavington
- Facilitator: Lee Beavington