Inquiry-based learning perspecive of Human Computer Interaction course

Very often the students receive knowledge by passive transfer from their teachers using traditional didactic model of teaching. This approach is less stimulating for the students to explore real-life situations and to realize how the knowledge can be applied in these situations. The inquiry-based learning stimulates the students to be active thinkers, to research solutions and to gain life-long experience, as well as confidence. In the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) course elaborated in this paper the computer-science students are challenged and stimulated to explore, learn and practically apply their knowledge in real projects. This paper describes the results and the experience of introducing inquiry-based learning for project assignments of HCI course.