About the Course

This demonstration module is from UC Berkeley's EDUC 140A: The Art of Making Meaning (Professor Glynda Hull.) EDUC 140A adopts an inquiry-based approach to learning. This is a student-driven, inquiry-based course. The inquiry-based design of this course reinforces its core concept, the art of making meaning. Each week students explore a new question related to literacy by working through a sequence of four learning activities that direct them to curate, collaborate and construct "their own meaning" on the topic. The result is a learning experience that not only thrives online, but actually requires the online environment to make its point.

Where to Begin...

1. View. It is essential that you read the EDUC 140A Inspire page that follows this one in the module. That page explains the structure of the course, and contains Professor Hull's 2:30 minute Welcome Video to students in the course. This video presents the rationale for the inquiry-based approach the course adopts.

...and How to Proceed

2. Be the student. After you complete EDUC 140A Inspire page. proceed through the module, reading each of the assignment pages as if you are the student. Red text on any of the pages are notes to you as a reviewer.

3. Sequence Matters! Inquiry-based learning modules are often sequential, and therefore it is essential that you read the assignments in this module in the order in which they are presented.

4. Hands-off? The step-by-step instructions for how to complete an Asset Library and Whiteboard assignments have been removed (a lot of text!) in order to highlight the pedagogy for you as a reviewer.