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.
Thanks, Pat, for the article.
ReplyDeleteI would like to use your inquiry-based approach in my upcoming course session, that carries a name "How to use RGB images in forecasting".
I would like to avoid the usual showcases of different RGB products. Moreover, there will be 25 participants in the classroom using more RGBs daily operationally than I am. Your word about flipping the default lecturing to something else attracts me in this particular case.
In fact, I would rather like to ask the participants the question " How to use RGB images in forecasting" and let them come back with real answers. [But someone could then ask why to invest into an satellite instructor who is only asking questions and not giving answers.]
Don't worry, the participants will thank you when you guide them to even better answers, and show them the product uses they didn't know about. But in the meantime, they will learn more than usual.
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