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Creating a community of inquiry

Creating a community of inquiry

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Creating a community of inquiry

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- There is inherently something different between renting and owning a house. When you're renting, there's a commitment but it's a short term commitment, and there's always the landlord you can call when something goes wrong. With home ownership, there's a long term personal investment and level of responsibility that's squarely on your shoulders. For many traditional classes, students can easily feel like renters on a short, one semester lease relying heavily on the teacher to provide the instruction. In a blended course, we want to design our courses to encourage the students to more fully invest in ownership of their own learning. And lean on the teacher more like a knowledgeable neighbor to go to for guidance when stuck trying to solve a problem. To do this we need to rethink the kind and context of assignments that we're giving to our students. Moving away from task based assignments and towards authentic projects that ignite internal passions of the students and allowing them to…

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