ONLINE LEARNING: Four Steps to Preparing an Open Inquiry Course This fall, after years of preparation in the classroom, we have launched our first 100% open inquiry online course. Students in this course chart their own path by asking questions, and they learn to find, read, and summarize content to answer those questions. This process trains key transferable skills in
Open Inquiry: A Guide to Getting Started Student-led inquiry is one of the best ways for students to learn and retain content, and for them to learn how to learn on their own in the future. The Beagle Open Inquiry Question Cycle, which we use in our inquiry classes, breaks down the research and team-sharing process into
Education The Joy and the Fear of Learning: Ideas on How to Run an Undergraduate Research Course Learn more about a new approach to undergraduate education, in which students are taught the key life skills that are all too often reserved for graduate school.
Education Any Questions? How to Turn Student Silence into a Conversation I now cringe whenever I hear a speaker say, “Any questions?” Few of us are ever jumping out of our seats with secret unanswered questions. If we had had something urgent to ask, we probably asked it right away. And if we didn’t, the speaker’s query is just
Education Are Some Questions Better Than Others? Assessing Questions with Students [Rubric Download] We think the secret to learning, the secret to progress, the secret to leading, is for the learner to ask great questions. Learn more about how questions drive us forward. Because without the right question, we’ll ever ever get to the right answer.
Education Featured How We Teach Problem-Solving, Or, A Step-by-Step Guide for Having Questions Lead Your Learning Experience This is the fourth in a series of blogs on on questions in the classroom, following Turning Around Question-Asking in Your Class [https://www.beaglelearning.com/blog/question-asking-in-your-class/], Learning in a Content-Saturated Environment [https://www.beaglelearning.com/blog/learning-in-a-content-saturated-environment/], and Teaching Via Inquiry Learning — An First Step? [https://www.beaglelearning.
Education Turning Around Question-Asking In Your Class Three years ago I was nervously facing my first experimental class, a class at the end of which I planned to ask the students what their questions were, and then let those questions decide where we should go the next week. In my mind I’d first see a shining
Space High Hedonistic and Low Fatalistic: The Importance of Optimism and Agency in Life and in Education Reprinted with permission from Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures [http://csi.asu.edu/books/vvev/] (2017) Ed. Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich Snowman in Oryx and Crake. Case in Neuromancer. Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones , for goodness’ sake. Why is it so easy to write
Education Teaching One World We all may truly want the same things for our students. A big question started as a little doubt, a little question, as I was thinking about our undergraduate majors here at ASU. The courses our undergraduate majors take are broadly similar to other Earth and space science programs, and
Education Virtual Team Success: 10 Best Practices for Managing a Global, Remote Team [Example] We Live in Different Time Zones and We Work on Different Things Are We Really a Team? “Welcome on board, Sophie!” I cheer over the phone, to our latest scientific team member. She’s joining our international team from a university in Germany. Some of us on the team know
Education What Do We Really Need to Be Better Teachers? Compare and contrast: (1) students leaping out of their seats with blazing eyes and changing their lives in the movie “Dead Poets Society,” and (2) the bored, inward gazes or sleeping heads of students that many of us see in classrooms across the country. These are two stereotyped extremes. But
Education The Culture of Learning: Excellence Without Competition What is the true premise of learning? How do you collaborate in it's purist form?
Education Coursera Present and Coursera Future Some years ago a couple of MIT undergrads told me they no longer went to lecture, because the lectures were videotaped and put online. Watching the lectures online was actually better than watching in person, because they could watch at 1.5x speed! So many questions. Would that be true
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