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R. L. Moore

INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
ACTIVITIES AT FIVE MAJOR UNIVERSITIES

Four centers have been funded by the Educational Advancement Foundation, and the IBL project at Harvard University has also received grant money, to support IBL activities. Help has been provided by certain key individuals along with substantial “in-kind” support from each of the five universities.

The two main goals (both achievable by sequences of extensive IBL courses) are the maximum development of each person’s ability:

The ability to teach well and to do research (from problem solving through creative, original work) is optimized by each student experiencing the IBL course sequence; i.e.: “Learning by Doing”.

Many studies confirm that active engagement is an important key to learning – two of the most recent are published by the National Academies Press1. IBL has proven to be an effective way to stimulate active student engagement.

The professors personally involved in teaching and managing at these locations are listed with contact information. 

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
     Professor Ralf Spatzier – Spatzier at umich.edu; 734-763-3269
     UM Center for Inquiry Based Learning

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
     Professor Kevin Corlette – Kevin at math.uchicago.edu;
     773-702-0702
     Professor Dianne Herrmann – diane at math.uchicago.edu:  773-702-7332
     Professor Paul Sally – sally at math.uchicago.edu; 
     773-702-7331

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
     Professor Michael Starbird – Starbird at math.utexas.edu; 512-471-5156
     Inquiry Based Learning Project

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
     Center for Mathematical Inquiry
     Professor Thomas Sideris – Sideris at math.ucsb.edu; 
     805-893-2179
     Professor Bill Jacob – Jacob at math.ucsb.edu; 805-893-8048
     UCSB Department of Mathematics Center for Mathematical Inquiry

1 National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu)

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