Dear Mark

I can'tt make this meeting, but would really welcome the prior reading material, and the report arising from the meeting. 
Many thanks,
Jackie

Jackie Goode
Research Fellow
IRLTHE
School of Education
Exchange Building
The University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus
Nottingham NG8 1BB
Tel:0115 8467204

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Imaginative Curriculum Network Meeting on Enquiry-Based Learning
Hosted by the Centre for Learning Development, University of Surrey

Convenors: Dr Andrew Comrie, CLD and Prof Andrew Lockwood, School of
Management
Date: 10 December 2003
Time: 12.30 -3.30pm
Venue: University of Surrey

Audience: Imaginative Curriculum Network meetings are for anyone who is
involved in designing and teaching HE courses and people who help teachers
to develop their courses.

Cost: there is no cost.

Purpose: to provide an opportunity for HE practitioners to learn about
enquiry-based learning and to exchange views and ideas about EBL. An
important purpose of the meetings is to enable practitioners to network and
sustain productive relationships beyond the meeting.

Style: Network meetings contain a mixture of short inputs, small and whole
group discussion and purposeful activities. An attempt is made to capture
key discussion points and principles and these are circulated to all
participants and to the wider network.

Background:

The Imaginative Curriculum is a collaborative network-based project aimed at
encouraging discussion and professional learning about the higher education
curriculum. In particular, it seeks to develop a better understanding of the
processes for learning that are embedded in the curriculum which nurture
students' creativity (http://www.imaginativecurriculum.net).

This Network meeting will focus on Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL). The term
'enquiry-based learning' refers to forms of learning in which learners
engage with a self-determined process of enquiry. The approach is intended
to foster collaborative learning and deep engagement through enquiry with
complex, often fuzzy, problems and issues. EBL incorporates structures and
forms of support to help and encourage students to work together to create
and conduct their own enquiry's for learning. While there is an overlap with
problem-based learning, EBL is perhaps more open to divergent ways of
thinking about problems, more open to exploring and understanding different
ways of perceiving the world and less concerned with providing firm
solutions to problems that do not have simple or unique solutions.

The meeting will consider the contexts for EBL, the core processes within
EBL, the different ways in which it is developed in different subjects and
the ways in which EBL may be introduced. A key purpose is to capture in a
report the experiential knowledge of practitioners so that people who cannot
participate in the meeting can learn.

We are assuming that all disciplinary-based learning includes enquiry-based
processes for learning. We will encourage participants to reflect on their
own courses to identify those elements that already contain enquiry-based
strategies and areas that might be developed to include more EBL.


Format
Advance reading: background Working Paper
Learning Based on the Process of Enquiry Conference
University of Manchester September 1-2nd 2003.

Meeting
* 12.30pm sandwich lunch
* 13.00-15.30
* Short presentations a range of subjects
* Small group discussions
* Whole group discussion
* Knowledge capture

Post meeting circulation of report and opportunities for further discussion
through email list.

Registration information

To register for the event please contact Annette Appleby, CLD Co-ordinator
at:
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tel. 01483 683362