The Legacy of R. L. Moore - Projects and Announcements

Projects & Announcements

See also Forthcoming Events.

NEWSLETTERS:

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	July 2016 - The Connected World of Inquiry-Based Learning. - Recent and Forthcoming Workshops.
	January 2016 - Empowering with Inquiry-Based Learning: The 2015 IBL Conference. - Beauregard Stubblefield: A Craftsman's Journey as a Mathematician. - NSF Grants for IBL Workshops - Recent and Forthcoming Workshops.
	June 2015 - Building for the Future: Where We Are and the Next Steps.	Resources: IBL Classroom Videos
	January 2015 - Engaging in Inquiry-Based Learning: The 2014 Legacy - IBL Conference in Denver. - News: Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics conference; new assessment study.. - IBL in the media: Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicating active learning increases student performance.	Carl Pierburg, Senior Director for Football Systems, Atlanta Falcons
	June 2014 -The Stories We Share. Examples of the importance of sharing student and teacher experiences. - News: Workshop and presentations at MathFest in Portland, Oregon, 3-9 August, 2014.. - IBL in the social media -- blogs, YouTube videos
	January 2014 -"We are IBL:" the 16th Annual Legacy Conference - Assessment of IBL classes, and other recent news. - "Distilling Ideas;" Mathematics Through Inquiry..
	June 2013 -Some Numbers from Four Inquiry-Based Learning Centers - "The Art of Mathematics" at Westfield University - "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking".
	January 2013 - Inquiry-Based Learning at Michigan: An Opportunity "to Grapple with the Material Yourself and Make it Your Own" - The 2012 IBL/Legacy Conference in Austin, Texas. - Euclidean Geometry: A Guided Inquiry Approach, a new book by David Clark.
	June 2012 - "To Understand Is to Invent:" The Center for Mathematical Inquiry at the University of California, Santa Barbara - How to Network: The Academy of Inquiry-Based Learning - Engage to Excel: The National Effort Encouraging Discovery-Based Research Courses
	January 2012 - Transforming Lives Through Inquiry-Based Learning - Culture of Discovery: Berry College - Number Theory Through Inquiry
	June 2011 - Transforming Lives Through Inquiry-Based Learning - Culture of Discovery: Berry College - Number Theory Through Inquiry
	January 2011 - Assessment and Evaluation: Preliminary Report - National Growth of IBL Continues - IBL at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2011
	June 2010: - Conference on IBL 17-19 June 2010 - Centers of National Growth - Networking: Academy of Inquiry-Based Learning January 2010: - IBL Projects Receive NSF Grant - Academy of Inquiry Based Learning Gives Grants - Moore Method in the UK - Guide for the Moore Method

INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
ACTIVITIES AT FOUR MAJOR UNIVERSITIES

Four centers have been funded by the Educational Advancement Foundation to support IBL activities.1 Help has been provided by certain key individuals along with substantial “in-kind” support from each of the four universities.

The two main goals (both achievable by sequences of extensive IBL courses) are the maximum development of each person’s ability:

to teach, and
to do research.

The ability to teach well and to do research (from problem solving through creative, original work) is optimized by each student experiencing the IBL course sequence; i.e.: “Learning by Doing”.

Many studies confirm that active engagement is an important key to learning – two of the most recent are published by the National Academies Press 2. IBL has proven to be an effective way to stimulate active student engagement.

The professors personally involved in teaching and managing at these locations are listed with contact information.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Professor Ralf Spatzier – Spatzier at umich.edu; 734-763-3269
UM Center for Inquiry Based Learning

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Professor Robert Fefferman – rfefferman at math.uchicago.edu: 773-702-7100
Professor John Boller –boller at math.uchicago.edu 773-702-7100

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
     Professor Michael Starbird – Starbird at math.utexas.edu; 512-471-5156
     Clinical Professor Mark Daniels – mdaniels at math.utexas.edu; 512-475-9145
     Inquiry Based Learning Project

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
     Center for Mathematical Inquiry
     Professor Jeffrey Stopple– Stopple at math.ucsb.edu;
     805-893-2179
     Professor Bill Jacob – Jacob at math.ucsb.edu; 805-893-8048
     UCSB Department of Mathematics Center for Mathematical Inquiry

A multi-year, comprehensive evaluation of the courses at these four centers examines student outcomes of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in undergraduate mathematics and links these outcomes to students’ and instructors’ experiences of IBL. This is being conducted by the Ethnography & Evaluation Research unit at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

1 The IBL project at Harvard University has also received grant money.

2 National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu)