enquiry based learning ruminative assertions to prompt - your questions - your discussion - and your...
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Enquiry Based Learning
Ruminative assertions to prompt
- your questions
- your discussion
- and your conclusions
Rationale
I’ve been involved with EBL (though not under that name) since 1975;
I’ve followed it with first and third year undergraduates, and postgraduates;
I’ve taught civil engineers, social scientists, and students of business;
From all of that experience, I have formed some probably dogmatic beliefs;
I offer these to you now, for you to probe!
An Enquiry-Based Keynote
I’ll hand out my 13 beliefs
You decide which one you question me on – and do so, first come, first served
One question and follow-up; then next person
We’ll stop when we run out of time – or questions
I used to quote Kipling, encouraging staff and students to question:
“I keep six honest serving men
They taught me all I knew
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who”
Nowadays six have become eight for me
Now, like my young grand-daughter, I gain a lot by asking:
“What else?”
First, I added “How well?”
Image: 'elephant talk' http://www.flickr.com/photos/47968145@N00/325235488
What questions do you and your wise neighbour have for me, then?
Ring-fencing
This illustrates the point made in the handout...... In the context of e-moderating facilitation. Elsewhere, the same principle applies, surely.
Student-centred learning
PROGRAMME AIMS
TASK(S)
CRITERIA
ROLE
DEFINITION
E-moderator’s purpose
Significant
posting
E-moderator’s style
Learning position
ASSESSMENT
FACILITATION
Response
Not used in presentation
- but an important distinction of types of learning needs, and their treatment facilitatively and by peers
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Learning Needs…...
Are held in different ways
So students may have to be prepared to deal in different ways with their needs
- with assistance from members of their learning group, and others
Our learning needs can be like ...………fish, in a fish-ladder
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Need = frankly declared
Outcome known: proceed directly
“Just listen to me, and then help me”
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Need = known, but feels awkward
Privacy!
Let me declare my need unobtrusively
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Explore options
Need = undefined
Help me to find out what my need is!
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Need = unperceived
Challenge!
Be open to feedback, and mismatches
They should be prepared to deal with needs differently
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declare
seek privacy
explore
listen!
- in their self-managed development
Others can assist by offering:
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frankness
suggestions
security
answers
