"Tell me, I forget. Show me, and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
Inquiry based learning is learning that is driven through questioning. Essentially it reveals the way in which an individual processes knowledge and supports this process through the learning. Through asking questions, students become the masters of their knowledge. Socratically, students question and the teacher continues to fuel this inquiry through a facilitated learning environment. Inquiry-based learning asks students to conjecture, analyze, argue, critique, and to prove or disprove. IBL functions under the concept that learning requires doing and thinking and this is an antecedent for learning. This model for learning continuously asks why, promotes students working together, allows for take home test, and regular quizzes.
This makes sense because it gets to the process of learning itself and makes learning authentic. Why do we learn? Because we ask questions. How do we learn more? Ask more questions. While inquiry is at times open-ended and difficult to track, it instills in students an essential skill to learning which is to become curious and understand how to follow that inquiry.
A study that shows an example of implementation in a calculus class:
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED506294.pdf
Helpful websites for starting this type of module in your class:
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html
http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html
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