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Comparing Approaches

Comparing Educational Approaches to Learning

Characteristic

Inquiry-based Learning

Project-based Learning

Problem-based Learning

Case-based Learning

Explores real world problems and challenges.

May or may not

May or may not

Students work in groups.

May or may not

Involves active and engaged learning.

Students are self-directed.

Students practice and learn organizational skills.

Students practice and learn research skills.

Students develop communication skills.

Approach allows flexibility.

Process allows integration of technology.

Students decide what they need to learn, identify resources, decide how best to learn from them, use resources to report learning, and assess their progress.

 

 

Students have a significant voice in selecting the content areas and nature of the topics they investigate.

 

 

 

Students have some choice in deciding what they will work on.

 

 

Students focus on developing a product or creations, and complete a project.

 

 

 

 

Educational goals may or may not address a specific topic or problem.

 

 

Problems are truly ill-structuredthere is not meant to be one solution. As new information is gathered in a reiterative process, perception of the problem, and thus the solution, changes.

 




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