Some faculty resources on inquiry-based
teaching and learning
Some useful websites
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry. http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/index.html
McMaster University. http://www.mcmaster.ca/cll/inquiry/inquiry.resources.htm
University of Sheffield , Centre for Inquiry based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences. http://www.shef.ac.uk/cilass/
Publications on Theory and practice
Fink, L. Dee (2003) Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Lee, V. (Ed.) (2004). Teaching and learning through inquiry: A guidebook for institutions and instructors. Sterling , VI: Stylus Publishing.
Bean, John C. (2001) Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Weimer, Maryellen (2002) Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Kinkead, Joyce (2003) Valuing and Supporting Undergraduate Research: New Directions for Teaching and Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Duch, Barbara, Groh, Suan, and Allen, Deborah E., Ed. (2001) The Power of Problem-Based Learning: A Practical "How-to" for Teaching Undergraduate Courses in Any Discipline. Stylus Publishing. (Reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 3, 2001
Ebert-May, Diane. "Applying Principles of Learning: From Assessment to Research," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/proceedings.htm
Healey, M. (2005) Linking Research and Teaching Exploring Disciplinary Spaces and the Role of Inquiry-Based Learning, in Barnett, R. (ed) Reshaping the University: New Relationships Between Research, Scholarship and Teaching. McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
"Issues in Problem-Based Learning." Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Special Double Issue, Vol. 11 (2). Abstracts online. http://ject.lib.muohio.edu/
Mierson, Sheella with Parikh, Anuj A. (2000). "Stories From the Field: Problem-Based Learning from a Teacher's and a Student's Perspective." Change, January/February 2000, 21-27.
Teaching tips and suggestions
Angelo & Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques (Jossey-Bass, 1993). Particular good for creative assessment activities.
Michaelsen, Knight, & Fink. Team-Based Learning (Stylus, 2002). Creative assignments promoting the value of group work. Also: http://teambasedlearning.apsc.ubc.ca/.
Sorcinelli & Elbow, eds. Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning & Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, New Directions for Teaching & Learning, No. 69 (Jossey-Bass, 1997). Ideas for writing assignments.
Bonwell & Eison (1991). Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 1 (George Washington University,). Good resource for engaging activities and assignments.
Davis, Tools for Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 1993). Creative writing assignments, tests, projects.
Hertel & Millis. Using Simulations to Promote Learning in Higher Education (Stylus, 2002). Active learning assignments.
Nilson, Teaching at its Best (Jossey-Bass/Anker, 2007)
Jakes, David et al (2002) Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning: an epaper about a structured approach for effective student Web research. http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html
Inquiry-based learning in the disciplines
deJong, T. (2006). Technological advances in inquiry learning. Science 312 (5773), 532-533. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/312/5773/532
Elgin, Sarah. "Bringing Research into the Classroom: Life Sciences and Related Areas within Psychology," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.reinventioncenter.miami.edu/Conference_04/proceedings.htm
Nelson, C.E. (1989). "Skewered on the unicorn's horn: The illusion of tragic tradeoff between content and critical thinking in the teaching of science." In Enhancing Critical Thinking in the Sciences (Ed. L.W. Crow) pp 17-27. Soc. College Science Teachers, National Science Teachers Assoc. Washington, DC.
