Campuswide Reform Initiative for Undergraduate Education

加州大学欧文分校（UCI）提出了一项针对本科教育的校园范围的改革倡议，该倡议的重点是培养学生的科学和技术素养技能，这是21世纪世纪所需要的。重要的是，所有学生--不仅仅是科学、数学、工程和技术专业的学生--都要做好准备，在这个后工业化世界不断变化的生活和工作环境中取得成功，并为之做出贡献。 与NSF的资金和领导从UCI的校长，本科教育院长，和其他关键教师的校园改革计划将导致（1）主要课程和课程内容的变化，特别是在数学，工程和计算机科学，（2）教育技术在整个本科课程的注入，和（3）。 该项目将建立在UCI目前的努力，以改善本科教育，包括几个由NSF资助，包括：加州联盟少数民族参与（CAMP）最近由NSF延长五年;南加州联盟制造工程教育（SCCEME）旨在改革制造工程; UCI新的跨学科未成年人在全球可持续发展，在UCI的五所学校的合作努力; SMART项目（科学与数学衔接的教学之路），由皮尤慈善信托基金资助，并被NSF引用为教师准备的国家模式。 目前的项目将为UCI本科教育的发展和实施更普遍的，校园范围内的变化提供催化剂。具体来说，NSF的资金将用于几个校园范围内的规划务虚会，创建多学科课程委员会，教师的小额赠款计划，学生和教师的教学技术培训，以及教学座谈会系列侧重于有效利用教学技术。额外的课程内容将包括开发四门新课程（一门工程扫盲课程、为非理科学生扩展的“科学成语”课程和两门教师准备课程）、新的计算机科学“双能”辅修课程和新的教学技术模式（例如，超文本教科书和校园教室可使用的多媒体图书馆）。 万维网将是主要的传播工具，它将包含由该项目产生的文件、材料和原型，以及到由NSF倡议支持的其他网站的链接。其他传播活动将包括在国家会议上发言和为教育和专业杂志撰写论文。项目评估将包括内部的形成性评估以及外部的总结性评估，使用从课程注册，学生满意度调查，焦点小组和访谈中收集的数据。 本科教育的校园范围改革倡议将对UCI的本科教育质量产生长期影响，丰富SMET专业和非专业的科学和技术能力。更重要的是，它将确保所有这些变化都发生在一个框架内，这个框架是由校园范围的观点和规划和实施的综合方法塑造的。

The University of Calfornia, Irvine (UCI) proposes a Campuswide Reform Initiative for Undergraduate Education that focuses on developing students' scientific and technological literacy skills which are needed for the 21st century. It is essential that al1 students -- not just science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) majors-are prepared to succeed in and contribute to the changing context of life and work in this post-industria1 world. With NSF funding and leadership from UCI's Chancellor, Dean of Undergraduate Education, and other key faculty the Campuswide Reform Initiative will result in (1) major curricular and course content changes, especially in mathematics, engineering, and computer science, (2) the infusion of educational technolology throughout the undergraduate curriculum, and (3) .a change in the campus climate regarding curricular innovation and reform. This project will build on current efforts at UCI to improve undergraduate education, including several funded by NSF, including: the California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) recently renewed by NSF for five more years; the Southern CA Coalition for Education in Manufacturing Engineering (SCCEME) designed to reform manufacturing engineering; UCI's new Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability, a collaborative effort across five of UCI's schools; and Project SMART (Science and Mathematics Articulated Roads Toward Teaching), funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and cited by NSF as a national model for teacher preparation. The current project will provide the catalyst for developing and implementing more pervasive, campuswide changes in undergraduate education at UCI. Specifically, NSF funds will be used for several campuswide planning retreats, the creation of multidisciplinary curricular committees, a mini-grants program for faculty, instructional technology training for students and faculty, and a Teaching Colloquy series focused on effective uses of instructional technology. Additional curri cular components will include the development of four new courses (an engineering literacy course, an expansion of the "Idioms of Science" course for non-science students, and two teacher preparation courses), new "dual competency" minors in computer science,, and new models of instructional technology (e g, hypertext textbooks and a multimedia library accessible from campus classrooms) The World Wide Web will be the primary vehicle for dissemination and will contain documents, materials, and prototypes generated by the project, plus links to other Web sites supported by this NSF initiative. Additional dissemination activities will include presentations at national meetings and papers written for educational and professional journals. The project evaluation will consist of an Internal, formative evaluation as well as an external, summative evaluation, using data collected from course enrollments, student satisfaction surveys, focus groups, and interviews. The Campuswide Reform Initiative for Undergraduate Education will have long-term impact on the quality of undergraduate education at UCI enriching the scientific and technological competencies of both SMET majors and non-majors More importantly, it will ensure that all these changes occur within a framework that is shaped by a campuswide perspective and an integrated approach to planning and implementation.