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What is Inquiry-Based Learning

Handbook of Research on Hybrid Learning Models: Advanced Tools, Technologies, and Applications
A term used to describe a range of instructional strategies based on premises that are centered around the need for learners to ask questions, then actively seek out answers to those questions. It is commonly used in the teaching of science. The teacher takes on the role of a “facilitator” who supports learners rather than simply giving them the answers, encouraging them to take responsibility for their learning through active exploration, discovery, and reflection.
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Applying Web 2.0 Tools in Hybrid Learning Designs
Mark J.W. Lee (Charles Sturt University, Australia) and Catherine McLoughlin (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-380-7.ch023
Abstract
This chapter explores how educators can harness the potential of a new wave of social software to respond to the challenges of tertiary education in the new millennium, by combining the interactivity and immediacy of face-to-face instruction with the openness, connectivity, and flexibility afforded by the new tools and technologies. It also argues for a new conceptualization of “hybrid” or “blended” learning in the Web 2.0 era, and presents a number of exemplars of Web 2.0-based hybrid learning that typify the emergence of a new pedagogy for the digital age. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of the issues, barriers, and dilemmas that exist in implementing an effective hybrid approach to learning within a formal education setting.
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Learner-Centered Approach with Educational Robotics
Inquiry-based learning is a pedagogical method based on constructivist theory. Instead of teacher presenting facts or knowledge to students, it starts out by posing questions, problems or scenarios to provoke students’ thinking and ideas.
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Integrating English Language Arts and Science: Promising Practices for Undergraduate Elementary Teacher Licensure Candidates
A teaching and learning technique which engages students in exploration of a topic through a careful and systematic method of asking questions and seeking explanations.
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Social Justice Mathematics Activism to Develop Student Identity as a Global Citizen
A teaching practice that uses questions to guide the curiosity to students as they enhance their critical thinking skills to learn the content material.
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Transform Learning With EdTech in the Elementary Classroom
A type of active learning that promotes students to ask questions and search for solutions to their questions.
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Developing Instructional Methods
learning is designed to teach through curiosity and student led exploration.
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Collaborative Civic Engagement During COVID
Inquiry-based learning is an approach to learning that emphasizes the student's role in the learning process. Rather than the teacher telling students what they need to know, students are encouraged to explore the material, ask questions, and share ideas.
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Using Digital Resources to Support STEM Education
A theoretical construct associated with problem-based learning environments. The student generates a question related to a curriculum topic, gathers resources to support necessary knowledge base, analyzes data in a variety of formats, and proposes a well-grounded solution or conclusions.
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Enhancing Students' Motivation by STEM-Oriented, Mobile, Inquiry-Based Learning
A constructivist approach in which students are placed in the position of scientists.
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Primary Pre-Service Teacher Changing Perspectives About Integrated STEAM Approach
Students act as scientists by planning and designing experiments, making predictions, carrying out experiments, collecting and critically analyzing data, discussing with their peers and devising evidence-based explanations to answer the questions initially posed. Although it is a methodology used in the teaching of physical and natural sciences, it is not limited to this field.
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Using the WebQuest Approach to Elicit Student Engagement in a University Course: A Case Study
A broader approach to student-centered learning which starts by posing questions, scenarios or problems, and learners work on addressing these issues through inquiry, research, intellectual engagement, and hands-on activities. In the process, learners develop a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts, principles and relevant skills.
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Webquest: Learning Through Discovery
Instruction based on a progression of inquiries or questions that lead the student to examine the topic of investigation in-depth with the ultimate goal of developing possible solutions. Students begin with an essential question that frames a problem, proceed to definitional questions, and then research and assess related resources. This information is then applied to the development of possible solutions which are evaluated in the final phase of the experience.
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The Effect of the Web-Quest Inquiry Learning Model in Enhancing Critical Thinking and Motivation for Grade Eight Science Students
An unconventional approach to learning that involves students' active engagement by having them ask questions and share real-world experiences. The foundation of this approach is to direct students' mental processes through questions and teach them “how to think” rather than “what to think.”
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Application of Experiential, Inquiry-Based, Problem-Based, and Project-Based Learning in Sustainable Education
Active learning involves questioning, exploring, and critical thinking to develop problem-solving skills.
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Exploring Issues and Challenges of Project-Based Learning for Teaching and Learning
By posing questions, problems or scenarios, learners will identify and research issues as well as questions in the learning process to develop their knowledge or solutions.
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Internet Field Trip: Conception and Development
It refers to a student-centered, active learning approach focusing on questioning, critical thinking, and problem solving.
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Gifted Education and Lessons Learned During the Pandemic
Active learning encourages learners to ask questions, lead research, collaborate, communicate, creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solve. Knowledge is constructed through a process of observation, investigation, and discovery.
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Reconciling the Perceptions and Aspirations of Stakeholders in a Technology Based Profession
A student-centered, active learning approach focusing on questioning, critical thinking, and problem-solving. IBL is expressed by the idea “involve me and I understand”. The IBL approach is more focused on using and learning content as a means to develop information-processing and problem-solving skills. The system is more student-centered, with the teacher as a facilitator of learning. There is more emphasis on “how we come to know” and less on “what we know”. Students are involved in the construction of knowledge through active involvement. The more interested and engaged students are by a subject or project, the easier it will be for them to construct in-depth knowledge of it. Learning becomes easier when reflects their interests and goals and piques their natural curiosity.
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Fostering Students' Critical Thinking Through the Implementation of Project-Based Learning
An approach to learning that encourages students to ask questions, investigate, and explore topics of interest. It promotes active engagement, curiosity, and critical thinking as students seek answers, gather evidence, and draw conclusions through their own inquiry process.
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Digital Disruptors: Creating a Gateway to STEAM for a Broader Audience
An approach to learning which is student driven. Questions are open-ended and the learning is focused on research.
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Bee Pollination
Challenges children to learn through investigating and reasoning about a problem.
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Preparing Pre-Service STEM Teachers to Teach Using Digital Modeling and Simulation Applications
A form of active student learning often facilitated by the classroom teacher. The format for such learning involves posing questions, problems, or scenarios to students where they research, using various tools, to find answers/responses to the given situation.
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Future Trends of Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education
A form of active learning that begins by posing questions, problems or scenario’s and often assisted by a facilitator rather than a lecturer.
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Using Technology to Foster Creative and Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Guiding instruction based on student interest with a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning.
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Google’s Applications for Undergraduate University Courses: Tools for Sharing, Communication, and Collaboration
Students are actively involved in learning and possess skills and attitudes that permit them to seek resolutions to questions and issues while they construct new knowledge.
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Planning for Teaching
Teaching strategy used to pique student curiosity and developing a method to answer student questions or interests.
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Engage Teacher Leaders to Design Inclusive and Inquiry-Based Practices: Rethinking the Use of Artificial Intelligence
An approach that involves students in solving problems with real-world connections to build knowledge in the classrooms.
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I Do and I Understand: Professional Learning Communities to Engage Learners in Authentic Practice
An approach to learning that is student-centered. Students utilize investigative techniques to uncover and discover new knowledge.
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Mobile Technology-Enhanced Learning
A pedagogical method that engages students in exploring a learning environment, raising questions or problems, and searching for answers to the questions or information for solving the problems.
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Creativity Development through Inquiry-Based Learning in Biomedical Sciences
A pedagogical approach that models the process of investigation used by scientists to answer questions in real life. This methodology fosters the development of some skills, such as collaborative work, creativity, autonomy, problem-solving, etc.
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Online Mathematics Teacher Professional Development
Is a type of learning in which the teacher is primarily a facilitator or learning rather than a giver of knowledge. The teacher uses various strategies to engage students in the learning through their interest to inquire about concepts and skills and their use in real life situations.
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Teaching Critical Thinking Skills to Foster Social-Emotional Learning
A learning approach which places emphases on students’ questions, ideas, and observations.
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Inquiry-Based Learning in Action: Theory and Practice in Higher Education
A learning process that encompasses a variety of pedagogical approaches where student inquiry guides the learning experience and knowledge construction.
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Transitions in Student Motivation During a MUVE-Based Ecosystem Science Curriculum: An Evaluation of the Novelty Effect
Active learning that is based on posing questions, problems or scenarios to investigate.
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Leadership. Personality. Education: The Innovation-Promoting Triad in University-Industry Collaboration – Real-World Projects Foster Students' Innovative Capability
Is an educational approach that emphasizes the student's role in the learning process by focusing on investigation and problem-solving. Rather than imparting knowledge through the teacher, students are encouraged to conduct research themselves, i.e. to explore the research topic, ask questions, and find solutions.
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