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Projects & Announcements

Contents:

• NEWSLETTERS
• INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AT FOUR MAJOR UNIVERSITIES

See also Forthcoming Events.

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CURRENT NEWSLETTER, January 2012:

Click on image for PDF version

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Previous issues:

	June 2011 Transforming Lives Through Inquiry-Based Learning Culture of Discovery: Berry College Number Theory Through Inquiry
	January 2011 Assessment and Evaluation: Preliminary Report National Growth of IBL Continues IBL at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2011
	June 2010: Conference on IBL 17-19 June 2010 Centers of National Growth Networking: Academy of Inquiry-Based Learning January 2010: IBL Projects Receive NSF Grant Academy of Inquiry Based Learning Gives Grants Moore Method in the UK Guide for the Moore Method

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INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
ACTIVITIES AT FOUR MAJOR UNIVERSITIES

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Four centers have been funded by the Educational Advancement Foundation to support IBL activities.1 Help has been provided by certain key individuals along with substantial “in-kind” support from each of the four universities.

The two main goals (both achievable by sequences of extensive IBL courses) are the maximum development of each person’s ability:

• to teach, and

• to do research. 

The ability to teach well and to do research (from problem solving through creative, original work) is optimized by each student experiencing the IBL course sequence; i.e.: “Learning by Doing”.

Many studies confirm that active engagement is an important key to learning – two of the most recent are published by the National Academies Press2. IBL has proven to be an effective way to stimulate active student engagement.

The professors personally involved in teaching and managing at these locations are listed with contact information. 

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
     Professor Ralf Spatzier – Spatzier at umich.edu; 734-763-3269
UM Center for Inquiry Based Learning

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
     Professor Dianne Herrmann – diane at math.uchicago.edu:  773-702-7332
     Professor Paul Sally – sally at math.uchicago.edu; 
     773-702-7331

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
     Professor Michael Starbird – Starbird at math.utexas.edu; 512-471-5156
Inquiry Based Learning Project

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
     Center for Mathematical Inquiry
     Professor Jeffrey Stopple– Stopple at math.ucsb.edu; 
     805-893-2179
     Professor Bill Jacob – Jacob at math.ucsb.edu; 805-893-8048
UCSB Department of Mathematics Center for Mathematical Inquiry

A multi-year, comprehensive evaluation of the courses at these four centers examines student outcomes of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in undergraduate mathematics and links these outcomes to students’ and instructors’ experiences of IBL. This is being conducted by the Ethnography & Evaluation Research unit at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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1 The IBL project at Harvard University has also received grant money.

2 National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu)

• How Students Learn (2005).
• How People Learn (1999).

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