Instructional Resources/Extended Services: About IRES

IRES values and promotes:

• Active Learning strategies that emphasize independent, critical, and analytic thinking;

• Help-seeking behaviors that empower learners to achieve the assistance they need;

• Technology and the skills necessary to effectively incorporate that technology into teaching and learning practices;

• A welcoming environment that reduces the fear and anxiety of asking questions and acquiring new skills;

• An attitude of possibility and of taking responsibility for one's own learning;

• An understanding of power of knowledge and of applying knowledge to problem solving;

• A community of learners who emphasize cooperation, creativity, and experimentation;

• An ongoing curiosity to learn and the "aha" of new-found knowledge.