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The Inquiry Learning Forum - This community seeks to improve student learning by supporting teachers in better understanding inquiry-based teaching and learning.
Resource Based Learning Online - Workshops, presentations and other professional development resources related to resource based learning and information literacy.
Ellen Weber, MITA Center, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach - Features multiple intelligence curriculum reform for higher education. New Five-Phase Curriculum Approach to implement inquiry based learning, reflective teaching, brain based curriculum, collaborative teaching and roundtable learning.
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse - Service-learning resources, research, events, and technical assistance for higher education, schools, tribal nations, and community-based organizations.
Problem-Based Learning - A method in which learners are progressively given more responsibility for their own education. PBL uses real world problems to stimulate learning, and to integrate and organize learned information in ways that will ensure its recall and application to future problems.
Museum Learning Collaborative - Established to further theoretically driven research on learning in museums. Site includes a comprehensive annotated literature database and a list of university course syllabi dealing with informal learning and learning in museums.
Problem Based Learning - Provides an overview of problem based learning (PBL) and offers a searchable archive of PBL resources.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) - Academic journal containing papers written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
Inquiry Teaching and Learning - Explores the creation of classrooms in which students and teachers are actively engaged in making meaning through personal and collaborative inquiry.
Annenburg/CPB, Channel-Talk Inquiry - An email discussion list for Learning Science Through Inquiry.

Wikipedia Articles

Inquiry-based learning - Inquiry based learning describes a range of philosophical, curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching. Its core premises include the requirement that learning should be based around student questions.
Project-based learning - Project-based learning, or PBL (often "PjBL" to avoid confusion with "Problem-based Learning"), is a constructivist pedagogy that intends to bring about deep learning by allowing learners to use an inquiry based approach to engage with issues and questions that are rich, real and relevant to their lives.
Inquiry-based instruction - Inquiry-based instruction is a teaching technique in which teachers create situations in which students are to solve problems. Lessons are designed so that students make connections to previous knowledge, bring their own questions to learning, investigate to satisfy their own questions and design ways to try out their ...
Discovery learning - Discovery Learning is a method of inquiry-based instruction. Discovery learning is a constructivist based approach to education.
Dragonfly Project - Project Dragonfly is an American educational project. It is designed to give children opportunities in inquiry based learning in the sciences.