So, you’ve decided to give inquiry-based learning a try… good choice! Or maybe this is your professor dragging you into doing something you really didn’t want to sign up for in the first place… well then good on you for giving it a chance! I promise, you won’t be disappointed.

Literally anyone can do IBL—actually we intuitively use IBL as babies to explore our world. Unfortunately many of us have had our learning through curiosity beaten out of us, ok, maybe not beaten, but we were trained to learn in more structured ways. In kindergarten, most children are often taught or guided to color, read, and write in specific ways. While some children are given environments and tasks to explore ways to learn through to curiosity. Most school systems incorporate a more structured style of learning. So when students encounter IBL in middle school, high school or university, it can feel foreign or overwhelming, but it isn’t too late to learn how to tap into learning through creativity. Anyone can learn at any age—many seniors have been intuitively learning this way their whole lives, while others practice IBL when they are acquiring new skills like using technology.