Objective - To support a community of faculty
serving as change agents for teaching within the academy
Students
function very well inside the box…tell us the facts
-
we will learn those facts - and we will demonstrate through
examination
that we know those facts..we weren’t doing a very
good
job getting them outside that box… getting them to
think
more, not simply memorize… to acquire new information
and
draw their own conclusions…
Dick
Malkin, Biosciences
Mellon
Library/Faculty Fellow for Undergraduate Research, June 2003
I wanted to bring
inquiry-based learning into my course, but the challenge was
how to do it in a large course.. An introductory course…
Ruth
Tringham, Anthropology
Mellon
Library/Faculty Fellow for Undergraduate Research, June 2003