What Is Inquiry-Based Learning? (3/6)

In this series of video lectures, we look at inquiry-based learning as a way of educating for critical thinking. In the video, I will present what inquiry-based learning is, how it is generally practiced through four forms of inquiry, and how the process toward greater capacity of inquiry goes through five phases. I will also address whether all students need to become researchers, which research-based teaching and learning implies is the goal. Finally, I will summarize the lecture and discuss how inquiry-based learning can develop students’ critical thinking skills.

The lecture has been part of a course on educating for critical thinking in higher education. It has been adapted from a previous lecture on inquiry-based learning. You can see that lecture here:    • Inquiry-based learning  

Link to playlist:    • Developing Critical Thinking Through ...  

The lecture contains the following recordings:

1. Introduction,    • Developing Critical Thinking Through ...  
2. Should every student become a researcher?,    • Should Every Student Become a Researc...  
3. What is inquiry-based learning?,    • What Is Inquiry-Based Learning? (3/6)  
4. Four forms of inquiry,    • Four Forms of Inquiry (4/6)  
5. Inquiry phases,    • Inquiry Phases (5/6)  
6. Developing critical inquirers,    • Developing Critical Inquirers (6/6)  

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Wale, Bantalem Derseh, and Kassie Shifere Bishaw. “Effects of Using Inquiry-Based Learning on EFL Students’ Critical Thinking Skills.” Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education 5, no. 1 (December 2020): 9. doi:10.1186/s40862-020-00090-2.