Welcome to my Blog Post #2 for EDCI 335. In this blog post, I will be discussing the instructional approach of inquiry-based learning and how it relates to my learning pod’s interactive learning resource. The goal of our interactive learning resource is to educate people on the essential biomechanics of a natural golf swing to improve your golfing and avoid injury.

The sport of golf can be best defined as a hobby for most of us who play. There is a small portion of golfers who compete at a high-level, and an even smaller portion of golfers who are skilled enough to be professional golfers. Therefore, in our interactive learning resource, we are aware of the role that golf plays in the life of our students. It is not a profession for almost all our users. With it being a hobby, our students should be playing golf for fun. Self-motivation is essential to the success of a hobby. It is for this reason that I believe that inquiry-based learning has some merits as an educational approach to perfecting your golf swing. In inquiry-based learning, students seek their solutions independently and the goal is to have students ask questions. For most golfers, lessons will make up a very small fraction of the time they are golfing. They might take 8 hours of lessons, spread out over four weeks. From these eight hours of lessons, they will go on tens, if not hundreds of rounds of golf, and countless hours spent at the driving range. For that reason, through inquiry-based learning, students should become equipped with the curiosity to improve their game by themselves following the lesson.

Above all else, our golf lesson in improving your golf swing should act as a jumping off point to improve your game. The goal should be to frame students with the mindset and ability to improve independently, and to have students draw their own conclusions on how to improve their game.

While inquiry-based learning is a educational approach that can be used for the game of golf, it is not the only one that should be used, and there are of course limitations to it. A educational approach like experiential learning should be used in tandem, to ensure that the student is actively engaging and practicing their swing. With inquiry-based learning, the goal should be to introduce golfers with self-motivated curiosity.