Making Students Active Agents in Their Learning
SMILE Consortium - Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment
The mission of the SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment) Consortium is to actively engage students by flipping the current model of lecture-style teaching to more inquiry-based learning. Students are given smartphones in order to take pictures, video and google information to generate a question to pose to the rest of the class. This interactive way of learning encourages critical reasoning, problem-solving, as well as communications skills. Marvell Technology Group is partnering with SMILE to create a plug that will make the program easily accessible worldwide.