We all know the traditional classroom drill: Go to class, listen to a lecture, take notes, go home, do the homework, come back to class, repeat. What if that model were reversed, and students heard the lecture information outside the classroom and spent class time wrestling with questions and ideas? In this week's episode of KUT's podcast Higher Ed, Jennifer Stayton and Southwestern University President Dr. Ed Burger discuss inquiry-based learning. Sounds dry? Not at all - listen on!
You might have heard about the "flipped classroom" - where students hear the lecture material outside of class and work on questions during class time. That's one example of inquiry-based learning, and this week Ed and Jennifer dig deeper into that topic. They also deliver the solution to the math puzzler from last week. Want to know how that five-feet-long fishing pole fit onto the bus? Listen and find out!
This episode was recorded March 25, 2015.
