How do we get learners actively
engaged and motivated to learn?
One way is to involve them in an inquiry learning process.
Inquiry-based learning is a broad category of instructional strategies that call for active learning and that develop higher level cognitive skills. In inquiry learning approaches, instead of lecturing, you pose questions, problems, or hypotheses that naturally engage students’ curiosity about the content and encourage them to follow a process of inquiry or research: to form a good question, hypothesis or problem space; to gather and analyze information; and to develop conclusions or solutions. The inquiry process should require students to gather the information you intend them to learn during the course anyway, but rather than just reading or hearing about it, they will be using it immediately for a meaningful purpose.
To read more about inquiry learning and other active learning strategies, go to Common Active Learning Strategies, or find this document from the Resources page.
