Resources for IBL Teaching
Materials
- Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics
- JIBLM is a good source for IBL course notes for college courses. You can find complete scripts of questions for a variety of topics, with helpful instructor’s guides. [Trade Secret: the instructor’s guides distill wisdom from many years of teaching! There is a lot to learn about IBL teaching hiding in these notes.]
- Discovering the Art of Mathematics
- This is an NSF-funded project to develop variants of Mathematics for the Liberal Arts courses in an IBL style. There are 11 different versions of those courses available here (for free!), and lots of information and help for new users of IBL techniques.
Mentoring and Workshops
The Academy of Inquiry Based Learning is an organization for connecting IBL practitioners. AIBL runs workshops every summer, and can match you with a mentor.
The Network of IBL Communities is a collection of regional communities of instructors, supporting each other in professional development around inquiry-based learning. You may find that such a community already exists in your area, or you may wish to start your own!
Blogs
The following blog sites contain interesting content about teaching college Mathematics, many of which address ideas of IBL teaching in direct ways.
- These blog sites are no longer current but their past entries may be of interest.
- Inquiry-Based Learning by Dana C. Ernst introducing Inquiry-Based Learning.
- Setting the Stage by Dana C. Ernst describing how to obtain student buy-in to the IBL classroom.
- The IBL blog.
- The DAoM blog.
- MAA’s Teaching Tidbits.
- David Bressoud’s Launchings.
- Devlin’s Angle by Keith Devlin.
- A Novice IBL Blog run by a collection of faculty as they learn to teach with IBL and reflect on their work.
- On Teaching and Learning, an AMS blog featuring writing about teaching and math education research.
- inclusion/exclusion, an AMS blog focused on diversity and equity issues in the profession and in the classroom.