HEA STEM: Enquiry Based Learning
- Date: 14 Mar 2012
- Start Time: 01:00 pm
Participants will work in groups, taking an enquiry-led approach to the workshop
Introduction to Enquiry based learning (EBL) (40 minutes)
◦ Definitions
◦ Why use EBL?
◦ Case studies (60 minutes)
◦ Examples of EBL
Discussion
Break
Developing EBL (120 minutes)
◦ EBL in your context
Presenter
Neil Gordon has worked in across the STEM subjects, though his main teaching activity has been as in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is interested in EBL from a practitioners perspective, especially regarding the opportunities it offers to link research and teaching, something that has an increasing significance with the need to demonstrate the value of a university education rather than alternative routes. From his own experiences of EBL in teaching Neil has published and presented papers on EBL – including the Learning Through Enquiry conferences. Neil is a University Teaching Fellow at his own institution, where he is a lecturer in Computer Science and is the foundation year tutor for the Faculty of Science at Hull.
