Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors » (1st Edition)

Virginia S. Lee has her own consulting business, Virginia S. Lee & Associates, with a focus on teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. From 2000-2004 she was the Associate Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, NC State University where she led the inquiry-guided learning initiative and had lead responsibility for the design and implementation of faculty development programs. She serves on the editorial review boards of Innovative Higher Educaton and the Journal of Faculty Development and was a past editor of the POD Network in Higher Education's Essays in Teaching Excellence series. She has published and presented on a wide variety of topics in teaching and learning in higher education.

Contributors describe their work in the Inquiry-based Learning Initiative at North Carolina State University and how the program was enforced at the course, major, college, and university levels. They describe how their system, which they maintain enhances critical thinking and student initiative, was developed, interpreted, implemented and assessed in undergraduate and graduate courses. They describe steps they took to expand the program to encompass more students and faculty members, provide course descriptions and web sites, and include chapter references. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR