What are the benefits of the Open Inquiry Toolkit approach?

Benefits for Faculty:

Cultivate human creativity.
By applying intellectual virtues to learning design, this Toolkit provides guidance on creating assignments and other learning assessments that can’t be done with ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence.

Teach with impact.
This Toolkit supports intentional, effective learning design that improves the teaching and learning experience for instructors and students alike by appropriately supporting student learning, rewarding originality and creativity, promoting accessibility and inclusion, and building a classroom community around student inquiry.

Inspire your teaching practice.
Emerging and experienced teachers alike can benefit from approaching their teaching practice from a new perspective. This Toolkit applies virtue epistemology to teaching intellectual virtues across the disciplines, giving educators a new framework for learning design and imbuing teaching and learning with the joy of inquiry.

Benefits for Students:

Outsmart ChatGPT.
This Toolkit delivers learning experiences that facilitate students’ intellectual development. This will set them apart from generative artificial intelligence tools like Chat GPT and improve their free expression and dialogic skills.

Build confidence and resilience.
In an environment of rising student anxiety, depression, and stress, this Toolkit will help to build students’ confidence and resilience by coaching them in the intellectual tools and habits of mind they will need to chart their own intellectual paths through complex information environments.

Foster expression.
This Toolkit provides resources for cultivating a climate of open inquiry and facilitating meaningful student interactions that can promote student expression and ability to engage with different voices, perspectives, research methods, and bodies of evidence.

Further Reading:

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