Inquiry based learning

While I was away I missed the first Annual Conference of the Learning through Enquiry Alliance of Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Learning through Enquiry: Theory and Practice. It was held at the University of Manchester on 29th June. The University of Sheffield is one of the Alliance members, and if I'd been in the UK I would have been one of the team delivering the workshop Information Literacy: Essential skills to facilitate learning through inquiry. On the conference website is the powerpoint (by Philippa Levy, Sheila Corrall, Peter Stubley, Clare Scott, Pam McKinney, CILASS, University of Sheffield) that was used to introduce the session, and a little photo in which I can recognise my colleague Sheila Corrall. This is at the bottom of the conference page. Other presentations are also there, including others from colleagues at Sheffield e.g. Inquiry-Based Learning and the History of the French Language by Prof. Penny Eley and Dr Penny Simon and Developing Living Theory in Inquiry-Based Learning: A community of practice approach by Dr Philippa Levy, Academic Director of CILASS.
Website is at http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl/
events/archive/ltea2006/index.php and there is also a little about the conference on the CILASS blog at http://cilass.group.shef.ac.uk/. This blog also has other interesting conference reports and (for example) today's entry is from a colleague in the English Department reflecting on their IBL project.

Photo by Sheila Webber: Sunset at Port Julia, South Australia, July 2006.