problem vs project vs inquiry - based learning
2.2 inquiry as part of PBL p. 4
"2.2 Collaborative learning and meta-cognition in project-based learning
Collaboration is an essential element in learning communities. Knowledge building is the creation of
knowledge as social products (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1996) or conceptual artifacts (Bereiter, 2002).
Collaborative learning provides opportunities for students to critique, justify, and more important, to build
knowledge as a team. A learning community will help individual learners achieve what they cannot on their own.
In addition, complex cognitive processing is required in project work and can serve as a catalyst for higher-order
learning. The inquiry process "makes covert abstract processes visible, public and manipulable and serves as a
necessary catalyst for reflective meta-cognitive activity" (Puntambekar & Kolodner, 1998). Project-based
learning is an iterative process of building knowledge, identifying important issues, solving problems, sharing
results, discussing ideas and making refinements. Through articulation, construction, collaboration and
reflection, students gain subject-specific knowledge and also enhance their meta-cognitive caliber. In other
words, meta-cognition, a kind of self-reflection and self-execution of self and group thinking processes are
essential to project-based learning in learning community."
superb source -- George B Abbott