The Points Don't Matter

This Innovative Pedagogies series is based on the article Innovative Pedagogies of the Future: An Evidence-based Selection that offers “a set of innovative, evidence-based pedagogical approaches that have the potential to guide teaching practitioners and transform learning processes and outcomes.” The past few years have seen rapid adoption in educational technology, and this series offers ideas for changes in the practice of teaching and learning to accompany those technology advancements. Citizen inquiry is the last innovative pedagogy in this series. Citizen inquiry refers to active participation by the public (students in our case) in scientific research. Most often citizens (students) are in the role of volunteer to further a line of research through data collection and analysis tasks such as observation and measurement. In higher education this is most closely related to the practice of undergraduate research. The significant difference being that citizen inquiry asks the stud